This year, I was able to attend CSS Day 2025 again. A yearly two-day congress with 14 talks related to CSS and the web. I missed the past two years due to reasons. But this year, the organization managed to arrange live captions, so it was a no-brainer for me to attend. This is the […]

April was busy with doctor’s appointments, medical tests, getting results of the tests, and I still had to go to work. My stress level was above the chart, and when I realised I had a week’s vacation coming up, I decided to book a last-minute trip. As a chronically ill person who has experienced a […]

Since day one that I lost the rest of my hearing, I have been using Skype to video call my mom, who lives in Aruba. I am fortunate that I can lipread our native language, Papiamento, well enough to be able to communicate without too many issues with most Papiamento speaking people. For 17 years, […]

Theatre is not something in my orbit. When I was a teenager, I attended one or two theatre productions when I lived in Aruba. But since I moved to the Netherlands at 19 it was no longer a thing I thought about. I do remember attending one production years ago, I think before I lost […]