For people of my generation, values were never something we talked about. They were part of everyday life. We learned them at home, at school, at work, and in the community. We did not analyse them. We showed them by how we behaved. In my daily life, it is important to do what feels normal…

There’s something quietly intimate about talking about clothes. Not trends or brands, not what’s “in” this season, but the real stuff: why we reach for certain jeans on a Tuesday morning, why a dress can feel like armor—or like a mistake—and how much of our inner life ends up hanging in our closet. This conversation…

The topic was not chosen by The Mayor. This point mattered to him, and he said so early. Janita had selected it: values. And already, before the discussion had properly begun, The Mayor admitted something that framed everything that followed — he found it difficult to talk about values at all. Not because he rejected…

People like to imagine the military as something loud and hard. Orders, shouting, macho men, fighting all the time.Maybe sometimes that is true.But that was not my everyday life. For twelve years and two months, I worked as what you can call a naval air soldier. That sounds already a bit confused — and it…