Etiket: NRC
Human self-destruction – NRC
How often, on average, does a person think about the end of humanity? I usually never do that myself. As a child I learned that the earth will be swallowed…
Advertiser wants honest influencer – NRC
I regularly get questions about the shirt I’m wearing in the photo accompanying this column. People like the color and want to know which brand it is. Alright then, it’s…
Bobby Rydell is dead – NRC
bob who? Bobby Rydell. Pronounced: Raidel. He passed away this week at the age of 79. It brought The New York Times and The Guardian to extensive obituaries, but the…
‘Don’t breathe shockingly’ – NRC
In the Lutheran church in Bussum, five sopranos, four altos, five tenors and one bass have gathered to practice Bach’s masterpiece: the St Matthew Passion. Coral for coral. The conductor…
Poor Poekie – NRC
Her call is a harbinger: … No at the very front … You also 1st class? ‘You’ are two male colleagues. Her question about “the cats” puts one of the…
Little by little – NRC
In a family the size of mine, you have a birthday party almost every weekend. “Can’t we just get together once a season?” my sister once asked my mother. “And…
A super fun evening – NRC
Sjaak gets on one knee in front of me and fixes me with big round eyes. Like he’s going to propose to me. “How are you, Frank?” My name is…
Lottery – NRC
Recently my husband passed away in Thailand. The cleaning ladies of our building asked me how old ‘daddy’ had become. I said 92. Then they all turned out to have…
Rip Grassland! – NRC
The Ukraine war caused a shortage of flour and sunflower oil in the supermarket. Not a disaster in itself, but what if that war spreads and we really get a…
Image cleaning company – NRC
Novovorontsovka is a village in Ukraine and that Novovorontsovka seems like a complicated name to me. Especially if you, as a resident of that place, have had a good drink…