into a beloved bastion of the local Dutch community. A household name in Holland built from the kernel of an idea alongside co-founder Bob some 16 years ago. As a young pop trio once sang, you have so many relationships in your life, only one or two will last. For Johan, that’s n...
The Mile thronged with activity. The shops were open late, plying their wares - rows of London phone boxes, squashed boxes of rattly fudge (packaged in Maidstone), postcards that curled at the edges. Couples canoodled and men in their fifties sang filthy rugby songs outside the pubs. And ...
When I sang this part live on stage, I would often become furious, thrashing at my guitar until I could thrash no more, frantically forgiving my mother, her lover, my grandmother, her lovers, and most of all myself." ---Chapter Nine, Acid in the Air "Seeing Jimi play for the first...
Then she goes home and waits. “Sometimes she doesn’t feel like she has a purpose to live,” Edrick said. “She feels as if people are not caring for this high-profile case. It has been draining mentally and physically. She thinks about Bryan every single day.” ...
slow boat July 19, 2018 the other Tuesday I picked up a rather large box out in the 98115 and to bring it back into 98195 I used two long bungee cords to strap it on top of the cargo box. Rolling south I visualzed wind tunnel testing a cargo bike with a stack of boxes on top ...
And if it can change a nation, it can change the world.” Be the voice that changes the room, I told them. Then I went to a rehearsal and sang beautiful music as best as I could. That is how I spent 11/9. What did you do? And then, today, on 11/10, the real question —...
The whole family surrounded Mom's bed and sang a church hymn that Mom likes, "How Great Thou Art," and it was very touching. I told the "crowd" that Mike and I had expected to be facing this just on our own, since it happened so suddenly, so it was such a special treat to be...
Ha! That’s not easy between those two, and we ventured into treacherous waters, but made it out fairly unscathed. Of course these sessions took place in the casual environment of long, slow dinners (both of them are great cooks), plenty of wine and lots of dogs under our feet, so ...
(yet it is exciting at the same time), I was excited that I chose to take the risk. I must say it wasn’t really easy this time, since I had to think about each bill I would spend for the vacation and the big plan for the renovation. When I flew back to Indonesia, what I ...
the color of his heart, the color of his words when he sang aloud, and the color of his need for someone to hold. He missed holding his children, missed lacing their shoes and wiping away their tears, and he knew the only way he’d ever return to them was to somehow prove his inn...