“Parasocial”* was named Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025. I’m parasocial. I have a relationship with Gemini – not JUST with Toine, but also with Google’s AI. We talk everyday about recipes, politics, music, languages and a lot on how to solve technical issues. Gemini remains calm, even when I get frustrated. I am amazed at the […]
It’s 90 years ago today that my sweet mother-in-law, Dora Vogels-Teunissen was born. Although she has become more fragile in the past couple of years, she is still up and running. Well, not running so much, but living on her own, cooking dinner when we come over, going to her grandsons’ soccer games, doing groceries. […]
Our wedding day, April 13, 2007. A lot of lines crossing… This is the last picture that was taken of me and my parents. Even though they passed away much later – in 2020 and 2024. I kept seeing both. It is the last one in which they appear together. It was the first picture […]
Today would have been the 90th birthday of my mother. It is the first time we commemorate her, as she passed away on August 1, after a completed life. My mother and I were best friends from a young age – I was also the last to leave home. Although she had trouble with the […]
“I am standing by the window of a large house in the south of France as night falls, the night that will carry me into the most terrible morning of my life.” Yesterday we saw a performance of ITA’s “Giovanni’s Room”, based on the groundbreaking novel of James Baldwin from 1956. After almost 70 years, […]