In the past half year, my life has changed drastically. I went from living in a student flat in Amsterdam with 13 others, working 32 hours a week in an office in Amsterdam 20 minutes from home, to living with my in-laws in Harderwijk and working 36 hours a week at an office at 2,5…
The Planetary Boundary Climate Change
When people are asked what the biggest challenge of our time is, many people answer it’s climate change. I too, acknowledge that it’s one of the biggest challenges of our time. However, I don’t know if it’s the biggest one though. I don’t know, because I see climate change within in the context of the…
The bloodwork of a vegan
A few weeks back I shared what I eat as a vegan for the 5th time on this blog. The goal of those food diaries is to show you what vegans eat (or at least, this vegan), in hope to inspire you to do the same. I think killing animals for no good reason is…
The Breeze dating app
It’s kind of weird that I will be writing about a dating app. That’s because I have never used one. I’ve been in a monogamous relationship for almost 9 years now, since I was 17. And before that I was at an age where you don’t really need a dating app, I met loads of…
Tabbouleh recipe
As you might have seen last week in my vegan food diary last week, I try to follow a whole-foods vegan diet as much as I can. To ensure this, I use the daily dozen checklist from Micheal Gregor. The daily dozen tells what you should eat on a daily basis. I must say, I…
What I eat in a week as a vegan – 2024 edition
It’s been more than a year since I shared what I eat in a week as a vegan, in March 2023. I also shared food diaries in 2022, 2019 and 2018. I think it’s important to share what I eat as a vegan, since many people have no clue what vegans eat. And I personally…
The ‘Beter Leven’ label on meat explained
If you tell Dutch people there’s someone in their neighborhood who is gassing pigs or cutting off their tails, people are disgusted and mad. They think this person should be tracked down and prosecuted. When you tell them that it’s a company doing this, a slaughterhouse or a farmer, then they don’t seem to care….
My secondhand outfits in a random week
I thought it was time to share some outfits of mine again. Every once in a while I share my outfits for an entire week. This way, you get a realistic view of what secondhand clothing looks like. In separate posts, I often share what secondhand clothing I buy. However, in those posts, you never…
Life update: I have a new job!
Every time my life changes pretty drastically, I write a life update. Today it’s time for a new one! In January of this year I signed a contract at a new employer and quit the job I had at the time (I wrote a life update when I got that job in 2022). I worked…
4 podcast tips – May 2024
Since 2020 I have been sharing 4 podcast tips in May of every year. So far, I’ve shared 20 podcast tips already. You can find the tips in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth edition of this series. Today I will keep the tradition going and share 4 more podcast tips (in May 2024)….