This reprise article appeared in 2001 in Het Fiancieel Dagblad English Edition in Amsterdam
I’ll fight you for my pair.  Nothing is easier to slip on to take out the trash, bring in the mail or wander around in the garden.  They provide a surprisingly comfortable fit yet are a bulky enough reminder to remove when [...]

Reprise from spring 2008 - When The King of Beers became Belgian owned, we all paused…
Like Labatts and Brahma Beer before her, Stellaaaa’s! (Artois that is) parent company In-Bev got thirsty and gulped down St. Louis, Missouri based Budweiser Beer in one chug for a cool $52 billion dollars. Ouch.
Long the butt of Dutch jokes [...]

 
by Denis Campbell 
Early May in The Netherlands is a time of painful remembrance and quiet contemplation. From Amersfoort to Alphen a/d Rijn, Zelhem to Zevenaar, at 8 pm on the Eve of Liberation Day the entire nation comes to a standstill for 2 minutes. Pictured is my 9-year old niece Ilse Bullee and other Scouts [...]

 
Statistics from the UN’s National Vital Statistics Report confirm the USA at 42.5 births per 100 girls aged 15-19 and the UK at 26.7 sit atop the global table! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Governor Sarah Palin’s official spokesperson expressed “shock and dismay” Monday that father of 1st grandson Levi went on Tyra Banks’ Show and said Her [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
While winter grips Northern Europe with an icy deep freeze and many look nervously to possible natural gas shortages as Russia’s Gazprom dispute with the Ukraine lingers, the residents of The Netherlands’ northernmost province of Friesland look anxiously forward to this coming week as the mercury has dipped each night to -18 (about [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
True Patriot’s Love my A**. A country with clearly the best national anthem on the planet (go to a hockey game eh and listen in awe as a great local baritone belts it out), has got itself a real foodfight there in Ottawa eh? The ruling Conservative PM Stephen (who?) Harper was outflanked [...]

by Denis Campbell
“What will be the next thing that challenges us? That makes us work harder and go farther? You know, when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century. Surely, we can do it again. As we did in the time when our eyes looked towards the heavens, [...]

The Dutch know how to throw a party. In 2000 in Sydney, the hottest Olympic ticket was not to the Opening or Closing Ceremonies. It was to Holland House beside Sydney Harbour where the parties were so festive and long that athletes from other countries clamoured to join in and one eventually had to produce [...]

 (Reprise post)
He was the butcher in the Dutch country town of Laren.  As days became years and years decades, he served customers and dreamed of finding something else to do with his life.  When he and his wife sold their shop, he faced a dilemma. I’m too young to retire, what should I do with [...]

Al Gore in April said of plans to extract oil from shale, “a junkie injects drugs between their toes when the veins in their arms collapse.” We’ve talked for decades about needing to reduce energy dependence whilst driving SUVs the size of small homes, living in uninhabitable southern areas where silence is impossible with central [...]