There is a common assumption that screening for anything is always a good thing. But should we always be screened, or should we perhaps consider the implications before we go ahead ? High-powered executives are encouraged to come for the “ultimate check-up” – MRI scans, ultrasound scans and multiple blood tests including serum rhubarb levels. We […]
The multitasking myth
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Women are better at multitasking than men. Researchers put this popular belief to the test, and the results were surprising. The word multitasking easily conjures up an image of a woman cooking while breastfeeding and sorting out expat bureaucracy on the phone. Or that of a man stopping whatever it is he’s doing because you […]
Happy Blue Year
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“You damn right I got the blues”, Buddy Guy, the legendary blues guitarist from Chicago, growls in one of his signature songs. Many of us feel the same way come this time of year. We might bark it out loud at our loved ones or whisper it softly to our own inner soul. Either way […]
The Ten Commandments of Authentic Beauty
01/01/2013 by 2 Comments
Often when people find out that I have worked in the film, music and fashion industries for over 24 years, they promptly ask me what their favorite celebrities look like in person. Everyone wants the scoop on that surrealistic parallel world where perfection is seemingly the norm.
White January
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January – crisp, white, a new year and new, blank pages. A simple Sunday brunch with friends or family. This was my inspiration when I set this table with new and vintage pieces in white and nature’s colours, in an old, beautiful townhouse in Belair.
Expat life and second chances
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford. The famous second chance. Normally, we all deserve at least one, but I would say several of them. That is of course because we all need them, very few of us are superhuman. And we need […]
The expat blues
01/01/2013 by 2 Comments
It seems a bit depressing to write my first article for this exciting new magazine about “expat blues”. But it is January; most of us will have had a great time with family over Christmas and New Year, and then get back to Luxembourg possibly feeling a bit deflated, maybe even rather miserable, at the […]
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