
My first paid job, not counting babysitting, was picking cherries. As middle schoolers, my sister and I would ride our bikes from our little town just outside Maastricht, in the southern part of the Netherlands, to the town to the north of us and spend all day picking cherries with the sisters who lived next door to […]

Gardening is another amateur passion of mine. There is nothing more relaxing than getting outside on a beautiful, sunny day and digging in the dirt, pulling weeds, and eventually harvesting the fruit of my labor. Here are a few images from the “berry patch” portion of my garden. What do you think? Do you have […]