Growing Bolder Community

Now I can write about the holy man and his history, but all has been said on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas so I might as well let you read that. When I was small, the Black Pete (Zwarte Piet) was a real bully that would take the naughty children in a big bag and take them back to Spain with him. These days the rod has gone. We don’t want to scare our children anymore....

When the romantic term Weltschmerz (worldpain, worldhurt?) was ‘invented’ by Jean Paul,...