Hello again! It’s me, your ultimate procrastination queen, writing to you from under the pink Valencian skies while Prince is blasting...

Oh boy oh boy it’s been a month! A deliciously good one, cold, cosy and confusing. Filled with friends and smiles and lots of snippets of...

I’m wearing my peignoir so it’s official: autumn has arrived in Valencia. Not for long though, tomorrow calls for beach time again with...

I have absolutely no excuses. I came home to Valencia nearly two weeks ago and am still landing. If I wasn’t such an unpacking freak my...

Lanzarote contains a certain magic that was so easy to grasp while roaming the island, yet the words evaporate from my pen as soon as I...

Sometimes life is holding on to what is close A gift of homemade raspberry jam A poem that made me think of you Rose kombucha brewing...

I love where I live. I’ve always felt that the place you land and decide to call home, even if just for a while, is important. For your...

It’s February 6 and today I finally took the time for a date with my annual pages where I reflect on the past year and dream up stuff for...

With the happy faces of my friends staring at me and a heart wide awake, my pen poured a poem. An ode to sisterhood. These girls My world...

To remind you I do write commissioned poems if that’s something you would like to gift yourself or someone else under the tree stars...

It’s been exactly two years since I left New Zealand, and exactly two years since I received a partnership visa that would allow me to...

The need for poetry is greater than ever. I find crevices in words I want to escape in only to make sense of things. Never before did I...

Last week was a funny one. The best way to explain the realm I was moving in is: jetlagged or in limbo between dream and reality,...

The first week of October lasted about a flutter of the eyelashes. So did the entire month of September. I guess that’s what it feels...

On Thursday I was in a rush to get out of the door to meet my love for our anniversary dinner. I wanted to write him a card and opened...

Spring has sprung, baby! Well, Valencia is more in a summer mood but I'm talking the start of something... Fresh! The city is drenched in...

When you live in Spain but your friends and fam live in Belgium, automatically your holidays will be spent… In Belgium. I know February...

Valencia! It’s been one year of living in you. You, glorious place made of dreams. Where scents of paella ambush your nostrils from every...

This week I had a drink with a friend I met exactly three years ago in New Zealand, at a festival called Kiwiburn that changed my life...

For nearly ten years we’ve been following this tradition now, my Brussels friends and I. We rent a house somewhere in the south of...