Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Albert Heijn, Catarina Chronicles, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Netherlands, tagged Albert Heijn, Arjen Robben, Dutch, Euro 2012, European Championship, European Championship tournament, football cards, football fans, Germany, Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbal Bond, national team, Netherlands, Olympics, Orange Lion, Oranje Leeuw, Robin Van Persie, Royal Dutch Football Association, voetbal, voetbal kaartjes, Wesley Sneijder, World Cup, World Intellectual Property Organization on June 13, 2012 | 14 Comments »
(Updated 14 June 2012) She’s baaaack. Catarina, that is. She of An International Trade Representative’s Got Nothing on Her and Head of Delegation Written All Over Her fame. My cute little nine-year-old neighbor has already been to the house two times in the past week. Euro 2012 is underway, and you know what that means: [...]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Light Bulb Moments, tagged cheating, conscience, karma, life lessons, voetbal on May 21, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Sometimes you can be going along, living life and suddenly something occurs that completely alters your view of the world. Turns it upside down. It’s as if you’ve received a karmic slap in the face. You know what I mean. We’ve all experienced this. You realize immediately that you’ve encountered a defining moment, one that will remain with [...]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Guest Posts, Learning Dutch or Other Foreign Languages, Netherlands, tagged American expat in Netherlands, learning Dutch, suspended, voetbal on April 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Hey there, I wanted to share with you that today I am over at The Unexpected Traveller with my very first guest post. Since The Unexpected Traveller is based in Belgium, you could also say that I’m travelling today as I cross the border to visit our neighbor to the south. I’ve been following The [...]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Life Balance, Netherlands, tagged driving, Dutch landscape, gift of time, soccer, voetbal on April 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The other evening I was driving Daughter to her voetbal practice. Voetbal (soccer back in the US), is something that brings her great joy. Not a ‘like to do’. It’s her passion. So when we arrived two years ago, we researched and queried and found a Dutch club with coaches and a program reflecting a strong [...]
Posted in Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, United States, tagged American football, commercials, expats, Super Bowl, voetbal on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was Super Bowl XLV, that annual pillar of American football majesty. The Super Bowl is the one night each year when America comes together as a nation to watch the world championship between the American Football League and National Football League conference winners. (This year it was the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Green Bay [...]
Posted in Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, tagged frozen fields, North Sea, voetbal on January 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Early yesterday morning I received a phone call that Daughter’s Dutch club voetbal game had been cancelled. Not surprising, since at the time it was -6 degrees Celsius in the small town 30 minutes north of here where she plays. That’s 21 degrees Fahrenheit people. And given the usual wind rolling in off the North [...]
Posted in Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Oddities + Odds & Ends, tagged autumn, horses, soccer, strange, voetbal on December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Earlier this fall I was on the sidelines watching Daughter’s high school soccer game. (Astute readers will notice the use of ‘soccer’ instead of ‘voetbal’, thinking I’ve made a mistake. Not so. Daughter’s school refers to the sport as soccer. Her Dutch club team obviously calls it voetbal. Just trying to keep up here, that’s [...]
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