You’ll quickly discover that you’re part of a long tradition when you develop a Rule of Life and read more about it. Here are 12 books that have been influential in developing My Rule of…
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Book Launch & Invitation!
You are kindly invited to my online birthday celebration
and online book launch
on March 7; 20.00 Mid Europe Time
25 images of ’25
2025 in 25 images. Enjoy! And a very happy 2026 to all of you. Kind regards from the Huisman Family
48+ Favorite Movies from the Huisman Family
Boxing day Present; Christmas 2025
And please do let me know what your favorite “must see” movie is. Enjoy!
My Book is Here and You Can Order it Now!
Hello you all, Just a quick note to tell you that my new book arrived safely, and you can order it now! It is just two years ago that I went in the Advents period…
What is your source?
Rather, what motivates you? Ask me a question like that and I’ll be sweet (busy thinking) for a while. I love it! In Wageningen, we have a pastors’ convent, where we meet four times a…
Back in time with Elizabeth Musser
Elizabeth Musser was last week on a booktour in the Netherlands. Great to meet her again. It brought memories back to the forward she wrote for: The World Around My Table.
What do an elderberry, a bird and a Rule of life have in common?
I am sitting at my kitchen table in the Lowlands and yet feeling connected in heart and spirit with you, my dear reader. With readers from Arizona, California, Dallas, and Canada to Nagasaki, Nigeria, Germany,…
What are your values
Your values are the beliefs and principles that you believe are important in the way that you live and work. They (should) determine your priorities and guide your decisions and the way you act towards others. (source: Mindtools) Read more….
2024 in 20 pictures
The most daring, the most sad, the most wonderful experience and a few more in 20 images of 2024
Back to the Birthroom
A room in which a birth takes place is often not easily forgotten. Most of you readers who have given birth might remember the rooms vividly, those rooms where our children saw the light for the first time. I know I do. It was an old farmhouse near Utrecht for our firstborn.
Seedsaving: A future full of hope
While I am standing between the tomato plants, my right foot suddenly sinks down twenty centimeters. I am startled and think: Whose home have I disturbed? And at that moment, a large rat runs past me to the outside. I scream, and that must have been heard a mile away.