Lost hobby found
The reason for this post was the fact that last weekend, digital scrapbookers all over the world celebrated International Digital Scrapbooking Day. Digital scrapbooking combines my love for paper and journalling, my passion for learning something new and creating and my enthusiasm for the neat and organized. Imagine not having to have boxes of paper, but just a hard drive to save all the digital stuff in! And albums don’t get thick, because in digital scrapbooking, tickets can still be scanned and placed in an album, with all those pictures, all in just one thin page. Isn’t that innovative? 
Autumn is here!
Fall is here and somehow, I’m feeling poetic. Not to mention that I feel like drinking hot chocolate eve-ry sin-gle day! I don’t know why but autumn has that effect on me. It makes me write about it every time it hits the lowlands. It is definitely NOT the best time of year, what with the chilly air coming in, as if welcoming shorter days and the advent of winter.
But, oh, how much I love fall. This is the time of year when nature bares itself to us. Showing us a very beautiful but also very fragile season.
Read MoreMuch Ado About Shakespeare
Yesterday was Shakespeare’s birthday, regarded to be the greatest writer of the English language. Shakespeare is so imbedded into our veins that I know no one who is literate in the English language who does not know at least one quote or line from him. Can’t think of anything? How about, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” from his play ‘Julius Ceasar’? Or try, “To be or not to be, that is the question” from his work ‘Hamlet’?
Read MoreWhy maintain a blog?
After writing on the internet for more than three years now (had to check my archives to be sure), I am still hesitant to call my website a weblog. I shy away from being called a blogger. As a former journalist, I don’t find it very professional to be called a blogger. I don’t even know where the word “blog” came from. I don’t call my posts “posts”, I call them “articles”.
Read MoreJournalism and New Media: friends or foes?
“New media disseminates information faster than a speeding daily.” There is much talk about journalism and new media either working for or against each other. Many professional journalists say that new media is merely a manner of delivering the message. This therefore, is not journalism. But some argue the fact that digital age has opened its doors to a new kind journalism, where non-professionals are welcome to collect, report, analyze and disseminate news and information. A name was even coined for these journalists — the citizen journalists. Indeed, technology has...
Read MoreBlogging, writing, or blogwriting?
“A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” I don’t write as much now as I did before. I would like to blame it on the fact that I don’t have a job where I should be writing regularly. When you’re a reporter, a writer or a columnist, it is your job to write. You have to produce a report, a write-up or a written opinion everyday. Some may call it forced inspiration, but when you stay in the media circle, you also have the required materials to be inspired to write. Admittedly, I don’t read as much news now as I did before too. We watch the morning...
Read MoreTelecommuting, something for me?
I’ve just found a new subject to research about: telecommuting. Or in simple words — working from home, working where you want to. Since I moved in the Netherlands, I have been looking for opportunities to work as a journalist, or as a writer, researcher, proofreader and editor. With the many facets of journalism — writing, researching and editing are my favorites. Call me obsessive-compulsive but it is actually a job for an OC. You can’t miss a period, a comma or an apostrophe. Whenever I analyze myself and why I like editing, there’s a part of me that usually...
Read MoreBecause I am not British…
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. – Octavia Butler Because I am not British, I blew up an application for a Writer/Editor post in The Hague. It seemed to be the perfect setting — the company is situated not so far from where I live, it seeks a Writer/Editor who would have to be “responsible for editing and writing of publications in English and making articles and publications available via intranet, website and other media, someone who can write speeches,...
Read Moreabout.me
Multimedia, multiplatform journalist, writer and communications professional. My passion lies in telling stories, working with words and finding the best platform to communicate information.
Along with collecting and sharing information, I am also particularly interested in beautiful typography, digital tools and technology, photography, historical mysteries, cultural diversity and languages. I love to travel and to see more of the world has been a fixation since I stepped into the vast jungle called journalism.
During my free time, I bead, bake, create wordpress websites or look for a new hobby to obsess myself with. What do you do on your free time?
