about everything in (my) life
Currently living in Brussels, I grew up in Florence from Dutch/Iranian parents. I love reading, watching movies and TV shows, spending loads of time with friends, enjoying the sun and good food.
There is one thing about the TV show The Crown that I cannot stop thinking about (there is no spoiler don’t worry) – the coldness of the royal family, the rigidity and incapacity of feeling empathy. I am not reading between the lines, it’s definitely a topic of the show, as Queen Elizabeth herself realises and […]
MoreThe good side of my Christmas holiday during a lockdown is that I had quite a lot of free time to read, so I used it to finish ‘Patria’ (translated into English as ‘Homeland’) by Fernando Aramburu, a 600 page book (the division in short chapters is of huge help). The novel became a literary […]
MoreI closed the year 2020 on this blog with a rather depressing publication about stress and lack of sleep. I could say it was in line with the general spirit of last year, although I could have written an equally positive post about my life in 2020. I reckon negative events can shadow a whole […]
MoreMy word of the year 2020 is ‘sleep’. Or rather lack of sleep. Never in my life I slept so badly as in 2020. As a child, teenager and young woman, I never experienced any trouble with sleeping. I was the kind of person that would fall asleep just after putting the head down on […]
MoreI heard recently by a fellow book lover that the books we read tell our story, and that in every book the reader finds a layer of him/her/themselves. We identify ourselves with the stories we read and project ourselves onto the characters. As I love books, these sentences resonated with me and made me stop […]
MoreIt’s very naive what I am going to write but some days I feel very discouraged. The title of this post is as naive as its content; there never were real democracies. Nevertheless, the moment we live in is a quite low level for humanity. Just a few examples; The New Migration Pact the European […]
MoreYesterday I met a friend and ex-colleague I hadn’t seen in a longtime. We had a lot to catch up and ended up talking, among other things, about toxic relationships at work. And this morning I came across this, in a newsletter (from this recently discovered amazing blogger) abound boundaries in professional contexts: “Something I’ve […]
MoreLast night I went to a restaurant in Brussels. The food was delicious, the customer service was very good, the company as well, we sat outside without freezing or rain. A very pleasant experience. If it hadn’t been for the first world problem I encountered when I went to sleep; my stomach was so full […]
MoreI would like to share some thoughts I have had and that have come to the surface again as I am watching Mrs America, a TV show I recommend. The TV show talks about two women movements in the US in the 70s, one composed by feminists, the other one by women opposing the change […]
MoreThose who read my blog regularly (thank you!!!) have noticed that I passed from one or two posts per week to zero. Those who know me personally, know that this doesn’t mean I have no writing project ongoing, it’s just that at the moment they are offline. At the beginning of the pandemic I started […]
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Blabbering of a millennial 