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I want to share things with you. Stories about my childhood, family, my views on life. Shorts!
Entries by alfred@bright.partners
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A 91-year old woman walks into a tattoo parlor. The beginning of a joke? No. Badass. My double-half-mother-in-law (her son and daughter married my sister and brother, do the math) is turning 91 today. Some years ago she had a star tattooed for her first great-grandchild (so my great-nephew) and kept up the tradition with […]
Parasocial
“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 […]
90 (3)
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. […]
Parents
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 […]