Environmentally Confused – Burn or Recycle?
The recycling movement in 1990s-era Vancouver started as a lukewarm way to protect the environment. Then the issues started heating up until it was a sizzling hot topic. Everyone I […]
Category Archives: musings
Persevere Severely
I spent my afternoon looking for new music on Spotify. I love being able to scan, listen and cue such a variety of amazing artists. Unfortunately, just like blogs, many […]
OPD: Obsessive Post Disorder
When I started this blog it was over at the Local, a Swedish, English site that supposedly wanted people like me to blog and talk about my life here in […]
No Attention Please! We’re Swedish.
Forget about Paying it Forward. What about Paying Attention? A few weeks ago I was at a gathering with a few expats, where pizza was consumed. We were using scissors […]
The Lat and Long of Light
It is forever amazing to me how external light reignites the internal one. In June of 2010, my first year living in Stockholm, I wrote a post called the Night Never Comes. […]
Don’t let that farthinder stop you!
Confusing but Fun Swedish words in italics, English in bold Body parts Vrist in Swedish is one of the words for ankle. But it is pronounced very much like wrist. And wrist, BTW, […]
Musical Interlude and Reflection
At fika this morning we discussed how the advent of digitized music will change how children remember music as adults. Even though CDs, cassettes, 45s, and LPs still exist in […]
Big Deep Chasm of Writing
I have been thinking about the murky, mucky, caffeine frazzled void, into which we writers of most ilks, write. We usually have no idea who reads or glances at our stuff […]
