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March 27, 2014 astrid

Publishing Success

Show me a writer who doesn’t want publishing success, and I will eat both her and my laptop. 3 things to set you on the path to publishing success started me considering more thoroughly why the wish to be published is both important and legitimate. I realized that there are multifarious (where has that word been all my […]

February 15, 2014 astrid

Indian Soap Opera

Or: 79 steps to clean clothes or:Bum scratching man and his disgusted missus In India, 53.3 % of the households sport a mobile phone, less than 20 % own a washer and only 11.9 % have access to a toilet connected to a sewage system. Clean tap water is not an Indian authority priority and […]

December 21, 2013 astrid

Travelling Light

I don’t think I’ll ever become a light traveller. Believe me, I’ve tried: I limit shoes and clothes to a minimum and I have a PhD in finding travel sized items: toothbrush, shampoo, lotion, flash light, towel, computer, you name it. I even remove all unnecessary packaging, and apart from my guide books, all my […]

May 10, 2013 astrid

All About Attitude

Standing on the side of the road, knee deep in muddy soil, amidst patches of snow and ice, she takes a load of shit. Most people don’t even see her, and if they do, pay her no attention as they hasten by. Unwittingly spraying her with their murky waters. Unknowingly missing out on her magic […]

May 10, 2013 astrid

Shit Shake

A Shit Shake is a shake to shake shit off. It may be used in all kinds of situations, with all kinds of shit. Shit Shaking has the advantage of relieving you of the shit something or someone has imposed on you, in the process reawakening and strengthening all the happy muscles in your system. […]

February 10, 2013 astrid

Ski Bum (dumb) in Åre

Shooting uncontrollably down the escarpment, head first, like a human snow plough, I wondered like Creep by Radiohead: “What the hell am I doing here!” In what felt like a terribly long and much too fulfilling life time, I managed to shift my limbs into a spread eagle position. Painfully using my hands and ski boots as […]

January 27, 2013 astrid

Morning has broken

Morning has broken, and what a daybreak. After a long drive in the dark the previous night, I went out like a light in the comfortable cabin’s loft and slept like one of the logs neatly piled up next to the downstairs fireplace. Sun rays now dance on my ice flower decorated window, inviting me […]

October 11, 2012 astrid

Taekwon-do Chaos Theory

It started and ended in chaos. On the first day of the competitions, queuing up outside Brighton Centre half an hour before The Taekwon-do Worldcup 2012 was about to commence, I wondered where it would all end, or rather, when would it all begin? Just a trickle of people was able to get through the […]

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 […]

April 24, 2012 astrid

The Inner Game of Taekwon-do

The «language» of Taekwon-do is foreign to me, in any connotation of the word. I don’t know the first thing about Korean, even though I over the years through two of my offsprings have been exposed to a fair share of yop cha jirugis, ap cha oligis, ap cha busigis and not to forget a […]

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