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It is odd, with time, and how things change and stay the same. How the weather can change your mood and people come into your life without you really noticing at first. And others leave, without saying goodbye. That it’s possible to like someone, without really understanding them. That understanding someone doesn’t mean that youContinue reading “it’s too late to call now”

I’m in Brussels, and there are birds singing everywhere. There are pink flowers in the trees and that constant song. I can’t see them, I only see pigeons, but I hear them. Excited, singing for the arrival of spring. But isn’t it late this year? I think it’s late this year. Brussel is on theContinue reading “when the winter’s cold, where do robins go?”

They’re playing The wild ones on the radio. The song they played about two times every morning on the radio station that the 21-year-old Germans forced me to listen to while cleaning the stables at Time Out Farms last spring. I haven’t heard it since then. It’s like being back there. And for some reason,Continue reading “Flashback”

They are showing the first season of Girls on the Swedish public service TV channel this spring. I’ve already seen the entire season (parts in San Francisco, at Sarah’s with Shanley and Tallulah), but after every episode, there is a short program called the TV circle, where three of my favourite Swedish media personalities discussContinue reading “nighttime reveries”

I did mine with black currant. It was yummy.  

I’m home, spending my Friday night editing old photos for mom. Home in Uppsala. This is the last week I can call Uppsala home. Then it’s back to Stockholm again, to the apartment we moved into when I was three. I’m gonna take care of it for the next eighteen months. Because, did I tellContinue reading “where the heart is”

I’m back in Uppsala now, writing the last finishing touches to my last paper for my peace and conflict studies course. But last week, I was working, in a reception, and since most people still were on Christmas holiday, I didn’t have that much to do. So I surfed the internet. One morning, I happenedContinue reading “memories through someone else’s eyes”

I’ve been working, as is my tradition, in a reception during the non-holiday days of these three weeks of Christmas. The same reception as last Christmas. And I wrote on the blog then too. I was reading Outlander on my lunches then, now I’m in the middle of A Dance with Dragons. They are kind of the same,Continue reading “Christmas break revisited”

The last couple of years, I’ve been making these pop cultural year summaries and posted on the blog every New Year’s Eve. This year, I was sitting with my Scenario Analysis instead, trying to make a prophecy about what is going to happen to the armed conflict in Sudan two years from now. And this ChristmasContinue reading “to summarize a year – I give you: 2012”

A couple of weeks ago, I was reading an article about the differences between European and United States’ean foreign policy and view on security. It was very provoking and the author (originating from the US) claimed that the reason why Europe can be so civilized and demilitarized is becaue the US is so militarily strongContinue reading “the Swedish war history”