Waking up this morning, I have a few blissful seconds of serenity before a deep feeling of gloom washes over me, like an unstoppable wave. The sadness and anger over what’s happening in the world, our world, my world, fills every crevice of my half-awake mind, and I struggle to…
Having left my employment last year, I’m not sure what to say when people ask me “what do you do?” To explain that I do all sorts of things, thinking, reading, writing, volunteering in a school, dog-walking, not to mention being a working board member of two family companies would…
To say, “I hate yellow” or “I hate sausages” is trivializing a dangerous word. Saying, “I hate Catholics or Jews or Muslims or whites or black people or…..” is not just harmful, hurtful and dangerous, it is illogical The United Nations has the following to say about hate speech. “Hate…
Having returned safely from our first trip abroad since 2020, I was struck by the clarity of vision with which I regarded our flat as I stepped into the hall, so familiar and welcoming, and yet, for a fraction of a second, like a place I saw for the first…
In August we took two dear friends on a day trip to Vinga, a small island with an impressive lighthouse, well-known in Sweden as the birthplace of the troubadour and poet laureate Evert Taube. The island is some ten kilometres west of Göteborg, the lively harbour, industry and university city…