Plums (dried)


After you've been on the road a lot, trying to eat healthy but also needing portable food, your appreciation for finding such foods rises. Summer and plums go hand in Holland, you can still visit little stands by the roadside or go to any good Saturday market and choose from…

Haiku Special: Renaissance Soundscape


Renaissance Soundscape Celebratory May Skippetybob pippetytoot Rambunctious dash Regal oracle valls Oolooloola koolookoo Funereal wail Ever industrious Sweelee keelasadodee Festival hayride Romantic spring blush woowee kaakee eilalei White swan wedding bells Predatory twirl Dodado roraro dee Call to hunting birds

Cucumber


Cucumbers make good candidates for heathy snacks and base ingredients for salads. As a mild-tasting refresher it can be the straight man next to almost any more flamboyant ingredient. I've come to appreciate it as a mid-afternoon snack to dip into home-made mixes out of mayonaise and spicy sauces. Today's…

Overcoming Inertia


Too easy to turn over once more in the blankets, twice, thrice, when my main occupation is writing. The harm is not tangible, the only one disappointed myself. If repeated, the bad habit itself becomes a prison, the only threat depression slowly crawling in. After several weeks of this, I…

More flexibility


After several months' failing to obey an ambitious posting schedule, I've decided to focus on those categories I wish to write in regularly. Other types of posts will occur as I encounter things of interest. Revised schedule: Tuesday: haiku Thursday: food Friday: writing progress Ad hoc: interesting words, writing inspiration,…

The Word “Bollard”


As a Dutchwoman, I consider water as much part of my mindscape as land, so it's wonderful to encounter a word related to that in English that I previously only had in Holland. It's also a wonderfully specific detail to add to a car chase scene (the low metal poles…