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Creativity

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Creativity is fuelled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. An alternative conception of creativeness (based on its etymology) is that it is simply the act… Read more »

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End of summer

Just a few weeks untill autumn officially starts. This weekend is the last weekend of the summer holiday of the boys. Monday they are both starting at there new school. I really hope they make loads of friends en feel good at school. Also most likely i have found a job and will start working… Read more »

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Finally a new post

Tha last month and a half we have been busy with moving to our new house. So we had to strip walls, paint them and a bit of burocratics to resolve… Now things are nearly finished, just the finishing touches. The new house even though it has some small problems feels very good and so… Read more »

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The secret

My mother told me to watch this it is very interesting. My family back in Holland is bringing it in practice and it is working for them. So will give it a go as well.

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Sotto terra il treno

The village where Joshua goes to school, is a village expanding build along two busy roads and with a station. Houses where affordable or at  least 6 years ago they where. Now they are expensive. People started living there because of the busy roads and the station it is well connected to Rome. But when people live… Read more »

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Bad weather

My mother in law for the first time offered to babysit on my husband birthday. So for the first time in 2 years we could go out together. As the weather gods might have heard that becauseĀ all hell broke loose, there was a thunderstorm and if it was not raining it was hailing. We went… Read more »

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Self acceptance

The other day I saw a Dutch documentary called Beperkt houdbaar (short expiry). Which talks about the beauty industry and how women are being talked into looking like something that is impossible the natural way. How the models in magazines are being photoshoped in such an extend that nothing is the way it really is, and… Read more »

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Dutch literature

When I was in school like most people I had to read Dutch literature, and write essays about those books. Maybe I read the wrong books but the books I read I found them very hard and actually boring. Maybe I should try to read some of those books now I am older maybe they… Read more »

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Alone

Daniele is in America for a week for his work, today is the second day and I will be glad when it is finished. Then the normal week start and it is a bit less hard. I really do not like it when he is gone in the weekend. Today I had a very nice… Read more »

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Photos

Daniele is crazy about photography at the moment, and he really has a good eye for it as well. The other day he showed me the following site http://www.lomography.com/ is about people nuts about old Russian cameras that are now being reproduced and improved. So surfing that site I found the following camera http://shop.lomography.com/colorsplashcamera/ I think it… Read more »