Year: 2012

August 29, 2012 astrid

Shut Up & Play

Sweat is in the air… everywhere I look around, sweat is in the air… perspiration stains abound!  Tension is building, intensifying and expanding towards and beyond the nonexistent ceiling and walls of the outdoor basketball court in downtown Trondheim this beautiful late summer’s day.   The older, heavier and nearbodybuildemuscular players are not only sweating, but […]

August 23, 2012 astrid

Cefalu, C’est la Vie

Cefalu is well worth a visit. We did not, by any means, give it the credit it deserves as we were only staying for a few days and had some very basic needs to satisfy before starting to explore the town and the area: The need for soaking up as much sunshine as possible without getting […]

August 13, 2012 astrid

Peak Performance

…or Caught Between A Rock And A Hot Place I don’t know what’s with us Norwegians: Just because there is a pole, we feel we have to find it, just because there is a glacier we think we have to cross it, and just because there is a mountain we bl…. well believe we have […]

July 25, 2012 astrid

Syracuse, An Old Panama Hat

His badge looked homemade, worn, not really aspiring to anything. Like himself, slumping in the shade under an old olive tree in the outskirts of the The Archaeological Park of Neapoli, Syracuse. On the bench beside him sat his water bottle and a tired looking panama hat. He did nothing to attract attention to himself […]

July 10, 2012 astrid

Cefalu, Jaws

“Jaws” was nothing like I expected. Actually I hadn’t expected anything. I had merely accepted an invitation from a boy my age to see a movie, and neither of us really cared what it was about as long as we got to sit in the back row. When I stumbled out of the movie theater […]

July 1, 2012 astrid

Multitasking, lets beat it!

Happy Orange If having breakfast, answering the call of nature, breastfeeding, washing the floor, taking a shower, baking bread, acting as diplomat and referee between siblings, planning and cooking dinner, counseling over the phone and jogging, all (well, not far from it) at the same time isn’t a dire case of multitasking, I don’t know […]

June 26, 2012 astrid

An All Time High

Sometimes         The snow is deeper The climb steeper Than you ever foresaw And making it To the peak Or anywhere near Is no matter of course And then Out of the blue… To read and see more…An All Time High

June 17, 2012 astrid

Of a Sound Mind

So, now it’s official: She is off her hinges, irrevocably deranged, mentally unsound. Bu that’s where you are so wrong. Crazy, yes, can’t run away from that one, but unsound, no. I am so full of sound, saturated with it so to speak, that I wouldn’t have believed it possible if I hadn’t actually been […]

June 8, 2012 astrid

Ups and Downs = Rock and Roll

Let’s get our act together Break free from every tether Be our own chief          Life is so brief Let’s take a bow For here and now And make the most Of every toast Ignore some rules Behave like fools Smile like a loon Under the moon Dare take a chance Create our “dance” Climb up […]

June 7, 2012 astrid

Go-Nuts Tart …with berries

  Here is, on request, a gluten-, sugar-, dairy-free tart. Like most recipes on this page it is only a suggestion, leaving room for your own creativity and preferences. The only problem with this cake is that, even though it is supposed to last for several days in the fridge, it very rarely makes it […]