The Price of Fashion: How Much Is Too Much?
21/04/2013 by 1 Comment
Like other fashion insiders, I never pay full retail price. Thankfully it’s a perk of my job, but it is also on principle: most clothing today is not worth its price. 30 years ago, a Sony Walkman was $100 and today an iPhone is about $300 – completely justifiable, in my opinion. But how did […]
A different kind of matchmaker
07/04/2013 by 3 Comments
“There are no poor people in Luxembourg.” Have you heard this blinkers statement before? After starting Givingatlux, Rute Vendeirinho received an e-mail from a Luxembourgish woman stating exactly this. Rute doesn’t have blinkers on, and she knows already, after only a few months of living in Luxembourg, that this statement is not true. Shortly after […]
Day of Happiness
20/03/2013 by 2 Comments
Today is the first United Nations International Happiness Day. The 193 member countries have adopted a resolution to prioritize happiness, and they want your contribution. Today is a good day to start. The UN sees a global attitude change: “People are now recognising that ‘progress’ should be about increasing human happiness and wellbeing, not just […]
Icebreakers
08/02/2013 by Leave a Comment
15 more creative icebreaker questions you can use in parties, a get together, trainings, meetings… 1.If you could have a super power, what would it be? Think flying, being invisible, turning things to stone, making everyone happy,… 2.What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen? This can be weird, horrible, beautiful. The strangest, most blue and […]
The Golden Cage
30/01/2013 by 7 Comments
A golden cage; that’s how Luxembourg is described at times; alluring in some ways, suffocating in others – kind of like a celestial snare. A fitting description, I suppose, if you work here. But for those who play the role of house spouse – the trailing spouse in local parlance – the cage can become […]
The colour pink
24/01/2013 by Leave a Comment
On January 23, Think Pink Lux launched “The Think Pink Guide” on living in Luxembourg with cancer. According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer is the leading cancer killer among women aged 20–59 years in high-income countries. They do everything they can to support women battling breast cancer in a country that is not […]
15 creative icebreaker questions
19/01/2013 by Leave a Comment
When running a creative thinking workshop, it’s a good idea to let icebreakers and interesting games lighten up the more theoretical part. Once when I was in a training myself, the icebreaker, introductory question to participants was ‘What is your favorite drink?’. And although it was interesting to hear that some people prefer water over beer, I […]
The Expat Limbo
13/01/2013 by 3 Comments
From the Expat Dictionary: expat limbo. A condition of being between a rock and a hard place in which you might find yourself after a certain time as an expat. Your home country being the rock, your new country the hard place or vice versa. Somebody once said to us: “If you want to go […]
Happy Blue Year
01/01/2013 by Leave a Comment
“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 […]
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