Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Albert Heijn, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, tagged busy, daylight, dogs, health threats, hopeful, laughter, meetings, overwhelmed, pleasure, problems, reindeer, Rudolph, signs, smile on January 14, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Some days you wake up and just ‘know’ that they’re going to be tough. You know the kind I mean. You didn’t sleep well the night before and you’ve got a busy day planned with back-to-back meetings, errands and appointments. You’re worried about a couple friends facing serious health threats and/or dealing with difficult issues. You’re out of milk […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Travel, tagged daylight, Estonia, Further North, summer travel, Tallinn on August 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Today is starting out as one of those rainy, overcast summer days, meaning only one thing. Time for more ‘Further North’. In honor of the extra daylight we celebrate here in The Netherlands during the summer months, I had decided a few weeks ago to write about visiting some of the places that enjoy even longer days. By […]
Posted in Dutch Life, Netherlands, tagged darkness, daylight, latitude, Netherlands, Scandinavia, summer, sunshine, winter on July 16, 2011 | 10 Comments »
 High on my priority list these days is getting outside and enjoying the fresh air and warm weather.  And of course, the sunshine.   I realize that statement isn’t particularly earth-shattering.  It is summertime, after all. Why wouldn’t I?  For those of us raised in the northern hemisphere, we’re accustomed to […]
Posted in Expat Life, Light Bulb Moments, Netherlands, tagged daylight, Seasonal Affect Disorder, sun on March 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Can it be? Dare I say it? Be still, my beating heart! Forgive the melodrama, but this is big. Well, big in these parts. When ushering Son and Daughter out the door this morning to catch the school bus at the usual 7:20, I noticed something. Daylight. The sun was up and the street lights […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Netherlands, Travel, tagged daylight, Edam, Netherlands, weather on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s December. We’re in what I affectionately call ‘the dark time’. Daylight is precious. The sun goes down well before 5 o’clock in the afternoon, doesn’t come up until almost 8:30 in the morning. But I am a ‘half full’ kind of gal. So I remind myself that it would be worse if we lived even […]
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