I was in a hurry to leave my mother on 31st December 1939. My twin brother grew much faster than I. I finished WWII with epilepsy . At school, I was the best in the Dutch language and good at math.  But the medication made me slow. Only as a teenager did my health begin to improve.  I was a co-winner in a national essay contest on agricultural cooperatives in the European Common Market. My father owned a local newspaper, so I became a journalist. Just before Dad's paper was taken over, I joined AD daily at Rotterdam (1970), the second largest Dutch paper. Next to my work, I studied economics. I specialised in energy and monetary economics. After retiring, I was a trainer of the youth team of my chess club, a town councilor, and a legal adviser to refugees. In the meantime, I acted as a double agent (early 1967- end 1970) during the Cold War, between communist East Germany and the Netherlands, on pay by the Dutch. My wife, with whom I have two children, stimulated me to write a book about my spy experiences. Double Spy in the Cold War was published in 2014. Soon after my wife passed away. In 2015, I finished my first children's book: Mike and Alex, the Defenders of the Animal Forest. I remarried in 2018, but only at the end of 2022 was my head again fresh enough for writing. That resulted in KOFFIEVREUGD (Coffee Joy), an ironic novel on the Dutch policy for the elderly. In 2025, it was accepted by a publisher. In 2024 followed the parts 3 and 4 of Mike and Alex follow. First, they heal a whale, and that whale offers them a world cruise by whale. That cruise goes first to the South Pole to fight the whalers. On the victory party, the tunas convince Mike and Alex to devise a plan to clean the seas of human dirt. In 2025, I finished Part 5 of Mike and Alex: "Alaska is the place to be". The polar bears in Alaska claim that they get every year less snow and frost every year. Therefore, their hunting grounds decline, and their species is dying out. But Mike and Alex find a way to bring back the cold, and that is celebrated by all animals from the Arctic. This book is accepted by a British publisher.