I will never learn how to tell time in Dutch. It's the most complicated sentence construction you can imagine. Het is vijf minuten over half vijf. Madness, I tell you.

Not to be dramatic, but I literally saved a woman's life yesterday. stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/get-off-the-…

I keep derailing my Dutch conversation class by exclaiming “you can’t swim!?” and “you don’t wear sunscreen!?” in English in response to my classmates’ sentences for our exercise about going to the beach. 😏 They are all like settle down, lady.

Learned how to say the rhinoceros eats an apple in Dutch so I’m all set.

The 20 mins between Biden’s letter and his tweet endorsing Harris aged me 20 years.

Donated to Kamala Harris’s Presidential campaign and took myself for a walk.

No, your screen time is up 3 million hours cuz you’ve been scrolling nonstop to see who else has endorsed Kamala Harris. I’m definitely not still in my pajamas, unshowered at nearly 1:00pm.

Ah yes, ladies - that pesky 'likability' problem. The moment we become leaders, we're just so darn unlikable. Have you ever heard it said of any man that he has a likability problem?

He looks like he chewed the blueberry gum at Wonka’s and wants to track your period.

My latest for Oldster Magazine: The Semi-Egalitarian Sex Life of Elaine Benes. Thank you Sari Botton! open.substack.com/pub/oldster/p/…

Awful.

I wrote about the time I did something shady in college and came to regret it. It's about ruthless ambition and lessons learned. xoxo open.substack.com/pub/stroopwaff…

This is a job for Geert Wilders

I wrote about a kid who was mean to me when I lived in Spain and I still haven't forgotten and now I'm a writer. xoxo stroopwaffled.substack.com/p/jeremy-butle…

The Washington Post's union claims my 2022 firing was an unfair labor practice. Today, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel agreed. A trial is scheduled for December. With thanks to ⁦Andrew Beaujon⁩ for this report: washingtonian.com/2024/08/28/fel…

125 violent deaths in Netherlands last year; Women mostly killed by partners, exes dlvr.it/TCW1Bz