Sunday, January 27, 2019: I’m still deciding whether it was the best or the worst day of my life. Maybe it was both. In any case, at the end of the day there was a new small human on the planet, and we were parents to a beautiful son. (On this website he remains anonymous …
The dearest freshness
Our personal Baby-exit could happen any day now. Hopefully, it will be easier and less frantic than the Brexit. It might help that there is little room to negotiate; the baby is now the only one with decision power. And he has a few more weeks to make his entrance into the world. Obviously, having …
No one is forgotten
On World Animal Day, I would like to share a quotation that I found in a book about animal rights from Andrew Linzey. It is a vision that was recorded by Julian of Norwich, a remarkable woman from the 14th century who lived as a hermit in England. The text is old English and has an appropriately …
Is it me or the world?
The little life that is growing inside of me is getting more pronounced every day. Yesterday we had the 20-week scan, which I was really looking forward to. Everything looked good, so we are very happy. The phase of collecting baby items seems to start now; people around us are offering us all kinds of …
Old times, new life
The main goal of sex is to make babies, right? That’s what we see everywhere in nature. Seen in that way, I have now used sex properly for the first time in my life. Still, when we look at the history of mankind, it turns out that it is not that simple. In the age …
From the earth
For a moment I think I am looking at an old swimming pool with green, smelly water. But then I see a big bubble coming to the surface, and then another one. We are in Bath, a town in South West England, where a hot spring is the center of an ancient complex of Roman …