Rotterdam, The Netherlands – 2013 Trapped in a dark, cold and rainy place for New Year’s 2013, I decided to sleep through fireworks so I could wake up dreary and early to clean up the mess other creatures make in…
Rotterdam, The Netherlands – 2012/2013 Hanging out in the second-largest port city in the world. Industrial, bleak and sadly not a prime target for terrorist attacks, I’m not going to lie and say this is a place I’d ever go…
For the past few months I’ve had difficulty sleeping through an entire night. Most nights I wake up from nightmares revolving around a few different themes, predominantly suicide, a sense of loss and hopelessness. This may be hard for you to understand as generally my writing is incredibly cheery and heartwarming. A few months ago one of my friends committed suicide. We weren’t that that close but it was one of those cases where you…
So did you guys hear about that time I bought a last-minute plane ticket to travel across the world, feeling desperate and hopeless? Yeah…it’s happened a few times already this year. Here’s the most recent story about changing climates, an…
Imagine you stayed in a medium-priced hotel, somewhere financially-conservative people between 40-70 stay. The grandmas do their hair before leaving their room. It’s almost 09:00 and you decide to go downstairs and see just how shitty the free breakfast is.…
Last night, with the help of my current host and illustrator friend Ditte Winkelman, I purchased a ticket to Berlin. Those of you who receive my frantic e-mails already know that I’m very hopeful about this move. Maybe one day…
