View from above of a person standing on grass, wearing white sneakers and light blue denim shorts, holding a camera, looking at water below a wooden railing.

Things I like & Do

A collection of things I enjoy

A while back, a new client told me that she found it a bit difficult to learn much about me as a person from my website, but that a podcast episode that I recommended to her after our first session told her everything she needed to know about my personality (she wasn’t entirely serious).

That’s how this list started. It was first published in November 2025.

Dogs and cats

Podcast: If Books Could Kill

The way the light glows in Southern France and Greece and Southern California

Mangoes and papayas

The color pink, though I wear almost only black; I’m trying to change that

Books: Here’s my Goodreads. I adore Samantha Irby, Jill Heinerth, Lindy West, Charles Yu, Dean Spade

TV Shows: Resident Alien; Somebody, Somewhere; New Girl; Mrs Davis; Schitt’s Creek

I love to bake, both savory and sweet. This is my favorite pizza recipe, and this is my favorite banana bread which is a big hit wherever I bring it.

I just took a pattern drafting class to improve my sewing. My current sewing project is a tailored, slightly oversized shirt.

I have 3 weaving projects, 4 knitting projects, and 7 paintings I’m (technically) working on in parallel

Another podcast: What Went Wrong, about how movies got (barely) made, and all that went wrong along the way. I don’t watch a lot of movies (just happened that way), but listened to the entire podcast back catalogue after I discovered it.

I speak German and English at native level, plus some basic French, Spanish, and Italian

Fun facts (I can never think of these on the spot):

  • I used to be a car journalist. I know nothing about cars but like to drive them; an editor hired me for my writing style and a passionate farewell blog post that I wrote to my first car when it was sent to the scrapyard by its last owner. For 16 years, I haven’t owned a car anymore.

  • I have three bikes: A Dutch, gravel, and racing bike.

To be continued (maybe).

Sunset over a coastal landscape with hills and rocky cliffs surrounding a calm ocean.
A person petting a happy, black and white dog with a scruffy coat, sitting on an outdoor wooden bench.
A table with a plate of assorted cookies, a cup of coffee, and a map of Japan.
Purple paper lantern hanging among green foliage.
Close-up of a tabby cat with green eyes lying on a tiled floor, looking up at the camera with a person touching its back.
Pink flowers blooming on a plant with a brick building, blue sky, and sunlight in the background.
Colorful striped beach umbrella lying on sandy beach.
Two sea turtles swimming underwater in clear blue ocean water