Why Paying for Journalism is Non-Negotiable 04/16/2019 I have tried to explain to myself why the world has gone so bonkers lately. Because I have not been able to do that, I've resorted to reading what other people have to say about it. It seems like all of the old cliches are true: politicians know what they should do, but do not know how to get elected afterwards. It is easier to please than to be right. Correct that: it's more important to please than to be right. If you were going to huff "Oh well that's just how politicians are!" think again.
I have tried to explain to myself why the world has gone so bonkers lately. Because I have not been able to do that, I've resorted to reading what other people have to say about it. It seems like all of the old cliches are true: politicians know what they should do, but do not know how to get elected afterwards. It is easier to please than to be right. Correct that: it's more important to please than to be right. If you were going to huff "Oh well that's just how politicians are!" think again.
Packing For Overnight Trip 04/10/2019 Not all work trips include being holed up in a conference centre for days. The more regular type trips are compact 1,5 day deals and in an optimal scenario can be performed solo. I will be embarking on such trip imminently. I had a fairly straightforward strategy for packing this time, but there have been couple of issues that threw my mind off decanting cleansers, and which I feel need to be shared here, namely: Kim Kardashian is becoming a lawyer. I know. Surely the most anti-feminist thing
Not all work trips include being holed up in a conference centre for days. The more regular type trips are compact 1,5 day deals and in an optimal scenario can be performed solo. I will be embarking on such trip imminently. I had a fairly straightforward strategy for packing this time, but there have been couple of issues that threw my mind off decanting cleansers, and which I feel need to be shared here, namely: Kim Kardashian is becoming a lawyer. I know. Surely the most anti-feminist thing
Body, And Other Parties 04/06/2019 If, after scrolling through newspapers and social media feeds, for some reason you still have appetite for something extra to throw you off kilter, let me recommend a book for you: Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. It's a collection of short stories about women's bodies which make for an eclectic mix of fantasy, horror, anarchy, punk, science fiction and comedy. The stories are mainly quite weird, but in a very fabulous way - Machado is a brilliant (and much accomplished)
If, after scrolling through newspapers and social media feeds, for some reason you still have appetite for something extra to throw you off kilter, let me recommend a book for you: Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. It's a collection of short stories about women's bodies which make for an eclectic mix of fantasy, horror, anarchy, punk, science fiction and comedy. The stories are mainly quite weird, but in a very fabulous way - Machado is a brilliant (and much accomplished)
Book Recommendation: Liar 04/02/2019 First of April is the only day of the year when people exercise healthy criticism when they peruse news: "Can this be true?" Otherwise it's pretty much everything goes, thumbs up, poke, like and share. There are actual companies whose business rationale is based on checking and verifying how many times the POTUS has lied in public. What was once something one did not want to get caught doing, today is very much the modus operandi for many recent political movements, media outlets and influencers
First of April is the only day of the year when people exercise healthy criticism when they peruse news: "Can this be true?" Otherwise it's pretty much everything goes, thumbs up, poke, like and share. There are actual companies whose business rationale is based on checking and verifying how many times the POTUS has lied in public. What was once something one did not want to get caught doing, today is very much the modus operandi for many recent political movements, media outlets and influencers
Belgian Miracle-Maker: Skintonic Vitamin C 03/31/2019 It always surprises me whenever it happens in real life: running into a beauty brand I have not yet tried, or even heard of or read about. Therefore a recent encounter at Brussels Kroonen & Brown makes for a beautiful memory to cherish. On the shelf there were three serums by Belgian Deutarium I had absolutely never heard of. It said anti-aging on one of the bottles so I obviously had to make a purchase. Deutarium only make serums, which is reassuring to me. The product line is not massive,
It always surprises me whenever it happens in real life: running into a beauty brand I have not yet tried, or even heard of or read about. Therefore a recent encounter at Brussels Kroonen & Brown makes for a beautiful memory to cherish. On the shelf there were three serums by Belgian Deutarium I had absolutely never heard of. It said anti-aging on one of the bottles so I obviously had to make a purchase. Deutarium only make serums, which is reassuring to me. The product line is not massive,
Women Bleed. Period. 03/23/2019 Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Obama, Alyssa Mastromonaco, wrote her first book Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? about her life in the White House and what it was like to have spent over a decade working with Barack Obama. The book opens with Mastromonaco's observations that toilets in the West Wing were far and few. Women's toilets basically didn't exist. There was nowhere to buy tampons if you had forgotten yours - and the time-consuming security protocol meant that you could
Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Obama, Alyssa Mastromonaco, wrote her first book Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? about her life in the White House and what it was like to have spent over a decade working with Barack Obama. The book opens with Mastromonaco's observations that toilets in the West Wing were far and few. Women's toilets basically didn't exist. There was nowhere to buy tampons if you had forgotten yours - and the time-consuming security protocol meant that you could
