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Early bird (for once)
I don’t know if it was the mosquito or my anxiety waking me up before 6. I pushed my earplugs deeper in my earholes but the mozzie was so...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 25, 20232 min read


Spring time juice
Spring has sprung, baby! Well, Valencia is more in a summer mood but I'm talking the start of something... Fresh! The city is drenched in...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 20, 20232 min read


Homegirl
I am slowly turning into a little house witch. Living in one place, no crazy big stories to tell. In case you were wondering why it has...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 10, 20232 min read


Sundaydreaming
Late morning musings Patti Smith shirt Book of Days Sunshine balcony Bare feet Black coffee Grateful Dead Dreaming of New York in The...
Joke De Roeck
Mar 19, 20231 min read


Holidays in the rain
When you live in Spain but your friends and fam live in Belgium, automatically your holidays will be spent… In Belgium. I know February...
Joke De Roeck
Mar 9, 20233 min read


One year in Spain
Valencia! It’s been one year of living in you. You, glorious place made of dreams. Where scents of paella ambush your nostrils from every...
Joke De Roeck
Feb 18, 20232 min read


Procrastination queen
This third poetry book has been on my procrastination pile, mind and to do list where it has been collecting dust. To be a...
Joke De Roeck
Feb 9, 20232 min read


That time our cacao got spiked at ecstatic dance
It was an innocent plan, to go to an ecstatic dance on a Saturday night. We had been a few times before and it’s always a great idea of a...
Joke De Roeck
Feb 6, 20233 min read


Travel memories and faraway friends
This week I had a drink with a friend I met exactly three years ago in New Zealand, at a festival called Kiwiburn that changed my life...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 27, 20232 min read


Blue Monday Magic
If - like me - you are one of those nostalgic souls who easily catch a bad case of the winter blues, today could be especially gloomy....
Joke De Roeck
Jan 16, 20232 min read


My treasure chest
For nearly ten years we’ve been following this tradition now, my Brussels friends and I. We rent a house somewhere in the south of...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 10, 20232 min read


2022 Reflections
‘Twas the night before Christmas, or not really. More like the night before my flight to Belgium where I instantly turned into a snow...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 30, 20223 min read


A poetic reminder
To remind you I do write commissioned poems if that’s something you would like to gift yourself or someone else under the tree stars...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 18, 20221 min read


Inner winter in winter
It’s been a week. Inner winter in winter, let’s go. Full moon rising over the ocean, pumping myself full of vitamins as everybody around...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 11, 20222 min read


New Zealand memories
If you know me a little bit or if you’ve been reading these posts sometime over the past ten years, you have probably figured out I’m a...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 3, 20222 min read


A dreamy recollection
It’s been a while, I know I know. I’ve been hiding in the mountains for the past few weeks. Somewhere near Granada, in a tiny town called...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 27, 20222 min read


A festival and a wedding: PART 2
The wedding After the funtastic festival that left me buzzing with delight, it was time to get back home to Valencia and scrub up for the...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 7, 20223 min read


A festival and a wedding: PART 1
The first days of November are to remember those who have passed on to other realms and to reflect on death. I decided to do this by...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 2, 20222 min read


To the Queen of Sass
No way. I just lit a candle – I still can’t light a candle without thinking of you and where you and your contagious flame might be...
Joke De Roeck
Oct 24, 20222 min read


Blood on the dance floor
When you’re all out of chocolate but Young Fathers' Cocoa Sugar is blasting through the living room and the windows vibrate and the...
Joke De Roeck
Oct 20, 20222 min read
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