This heat… the summer heat… it’s getting to me. I love summer weather as much as…
Category: Just blogging
Two Plus Three Plus Five
Can you believe we have made it to the end of yet another month? The seventh…
Mindfulness While Coloring Sunflowers
Can you believe the first half of 2022 is behind us? Time seems to pass so…
Six Plus Seven Is Thirteen From Medium
This is the sixth time I share posts I have written for Medium, but which I…
Seven, A Magical Number
Why is seven a magical number? We have seven days in the week, and it’s said…
Bullet Journal: March & April
When I shared my creations for January & February from my bullet journal, I already knew…
Memes: Have We Outgrown Them?
I have been a meme holder for almost 10 years, having started Wicked Wednesday in June…
Ba-bo-tea… No, It’s Not Tea!
Bobotie — pronounced ba-bo-tea — is a dish I have eaten countless times in my life,…
Bullet Journal: January & February
When my daughter mentioned bullet journalling in December 2021, I told her it wasn’t for me.…
This Time I Share Eight
My writing journey on Medium continues, and so does my sharing of what I posted on…
Celebrating Twelve With Fourteen
On 26 January 2022, my blog was 12 years old. On that day in 2010, I…
Seven of the Past Month
I created a Medium account many years ago, to be able to read stories there which…
Top Ten Posts of all Times
Roughly nine and half years ago, on the 4th of June in 2012, I published the…
James Spader, an infatuation
My first recollection of James Spader is of when we watched Boston Legal on television back…
Promoting my alter ego
If there’s something I’m definitely not good at, it’s promoting my work, or myself. It’s not…
I love gadgets!
My youth was without gadgets. Or, maybe I should rephrase that… my youth was without digital…
Addictions, Medium and Medieval
What do addiction, Medium and medieval have in common? Absolutely nothing, and then maybe a tiny…
The Blogable Fiction Marathon
For several years, I organized the Smut Marathon — four years for the Dutch writing community…
Memes move to new homes
Sometimes, you walk around for months with a vague idea in your heads, knowing you have…
Hidden memes, or those you don’t know about yet
Back in March 2014 this post appeared for the first time, just after I had taken…
Eleven years and eleven of eleven things
Eleven years ago I decided to start Rebel’s Notes. The name was one of the first…
Setting goals and a theme for 2021
I don’t like making New Year’s resolutions, because those always seem to have something to do…
Looking back on 2020… what a year!
I don’t think I have done it every year of my ‘blogging career’ — looking back…
Assessing my priorities
In the past couple of months things have changed in my life. Some circumstances have forced…
Writing, blogging and journaling
This Tell Me About prompt couldn’t have come at a better time since I, just like…
The Grammar of Science
Statistics is the grammar of science.~ Karl Pearson Now, for those who know me a bit…