A Letter to Russian Women “Hey, Russian Ladies – It’s Time to Shape Your Country’s Future! After knowing Russian women since 1992—working with escaped ballerinas during my modelling days, employing them in my wine bar and shoe shops, hosting them in my home (even assisting in labour!), and building genuine friendships—, I’ve noticed something remarkable:…
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“Once Upon a Time”
Ah, the naivety of youth – when I was young, blonde, and thought I had the world figured out.Now I’m older, wiser, and still not hideous enough to scare small children. Progress, I suppose. Picture this: a Dutch ingénue in a land where “progress” was a fancy word people used when they wanted to sound…
“the Twins of Turmoil”
The Desperado’s Gambit: A Tale of Gaza’s Transformation In the dimly lit room of global politics, I found myself staring at a chessboard. The pieces, worn and battle-scarred, represented the complex landscape of the Middle East. My eyes fixed on a small, often overlooked piece – Gaza. As an anthropologist and entrepreneur, I’ve always been…
Mr Nihilism
Healing Harmonies: Redefining Learning Through Sound Growing up, my mother intuitively understood music’s profound capacity to regulate emotions.Her daily soundtrack—Bach and Mozart during work (tending her roses and giving orders to the unlucky working in her garden), Ella Fitzgerald or even Rod Steward during relaxation—was more than entertainment. It was emotional alchemy. “Nihilism,” (no intrinsic…
The Universal Birth Fund: A Global Female-Led Business Venture
I’ve developed a transformative business idea: a worldwide investment platform led by each country’s most successful women entrepreneurs and business leaders. The Concept: Imagine a coalition of the world’s most successful businesswomen, each leading from their own country, coming together to create a blockchain-based financial platform that establishes investment funds for newborn girls. This unique…
The Lost Game That Never Was
In the summer of 1979, between Art Garfunkel’s “Bright Eyes” making everyone weepy and KISS declaring their manufactured love on my first Walkman (a true miracle of Japanese engineering at the time), I was already dreaming of amazing adventures. The Atari, a marvel of its time, was still in its infancy, and the 2600 had…
Rethinking Peace in the Horn of Africa: Economic Integration and Women’s Voice
As someone who frequently travels between Europe and the Horn of Africa, I often find myself making observations that might raise eyebrows at diplomatic cocktail parties. Here’s the thing – we still make jokes about Nazis in Europe, yet Germany and France have built one of the most substantial economic partnerships in history. This isn’t…
Fermi & irked
The most significant challenge in my life stemmed from an incident that deeply irked me years ago. A toxic individual in my orbit once smirked, insinuating, “Perhaps you can’t manifest this project like you used to.” Upon reflection, I realised that multiple goals operate simultaneously within us, and my subconscious—or more precisely, my maternal circuitry—takes…
The C.O.M.C. Files 