This is the sixth attempt to start this article and I’ve decided to not overthink things too much anymore and just go with the flow.

So, it’s been five years. Five full years since I’ve updated No More Waffles. On the one hand, that sounds and feels like an eternity. It’s about 1/6th of my life so far. But on the other hand, it feels like I’ve never been gone. This blog has been on my mind regularly, like a little devil prodding its miniature pitchfork in the back of my brain somewhere: “Hey, get to writing! You enjoy writing. People think you have valuable information to share.”

Yep, the road pictured above is actually part of my daily commute to work. It’s a beautiful stretch of green next to a relatively large lake in the car-free park of Tervuren, which also houses the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Now can you understand why I ride 32km to and from work every day? And that’s not even the best part: I’m getting paid to do so!

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In light of yesterday’s events in Brussels I received about a dozen of kind e-mails asking if I am okay and wether I’m safe. That’s why I wanted to put out a short post telling you guys that I am, in fact, good and felt safe at all times yesterday, even though I work close to Parliament and I commute past the bombed metro. My family and friends are safe too, although the tragedy left a strong impression on us all.

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About six months ago I wrote an article called Spending Money to Make Money. While this adage is used at the most inappropriate of times, I actually believed that I had found a way to make money by first spending it. On top of that I would be enjoying the hell out of it too. Sounds too good to be true? Let’s see what’s what!

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Exciting and exhausting at the same time. That’s the best way I can describe maintaining a blog and putting yourself out in the open like I have the past year. It’s been a tremendous experience that has brought me into contact with tons of like-minded individuals and great people and for that I’m thankful. However, a Dutch proverb also teaches us that tall trees catch much wind.

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