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Opinion | Bassist – NRC
Every year I compose the music for the school musical that is performed in the Moses and Aaron Church in Amsterdam. The bassist of the orchestra is known from radio…
Opinion | Beer – NRC
2008. On our way from Ukraine we pass the border between Transnistria and Moldova. An armored vehicle of Russian ‘peace troops’ stands on the roadside. Soldiers sit bored in the…
Opinion | Crazy brownies – NRC
My girlfriend and I visit the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen depot. In the restaurant we notice how white and how old the audience is. When checking out with a young…
Opinion | Patient – NRC
I am in the waiting area of a somewhat smaller cardiopoli near The Hague around 11 o’clock. The desk clerk calls the next patient: “Mrs. Jansen!” Mrs. Jansen reports. “Mrs.…
Void – NRC
I felt an emptiness. Do you know that? An emotional flattening, or so I learned on the internet. Google, my always ready friend full of wisdom, I asked for advice.…
Last time – NRC
Lester (11) has sports day. The teacher asked for help from parents. I volunteered because this is the last time I can do anything with him and his class before…
Ballot boxes open in France – NRC
French polling stations opened at 8 a.m. Sunday morning for the second and final round of presidential elections. In the first round of voting, which took place on Sunday, April…
Seniors – NRC
Our birthday uncle and aunt have an air fryer on their wish list. They are old and not very handy with buttons and novelties, so I enter the following search…
Saving energy – NRC
We are energy efficient and have solar panels that still have power left. We have been cooking on induction for six months now. In the meantime, gas is becoming more…
Russia claims to take Mariupol – NRC
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered his armed forces to hermetically seal the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol, the last seat of resistance in the city on the Sea…