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Publishing Success
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 […]

Indian Soap Opera
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 […]

Travelling Light
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 […]

Fall in love with Autumn
September 24, 2012 astrid

Fall in love with Autumn

It is raining cats and dogs, and a whole lot of other animals.  I have donned the local national costume, a waterproof windbreaker and ditto gore-tex- coordinated pants and boots, and am not in the least bothered by the zoology falling from the sky.

Shut Up & Play
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 […]

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

May 20, 2012 astrid

Goals and Birds of a Feather

Goal is a word having an almost unlimited range when it comes to scope, and an equally limitless diversity when contents are concerned: For a depressed person a goal may be getting out of bed in the morning, forcing down a piece of bread and setting one foot in front of the other in order […]

May 3, 2012 astrid

Spring Fever

Spring in our little corner of the world arrives in most the same manner each year. It usually takes place around midday on a weekend: The previous evening I go to bed, snuggling under my duvet, relishing in its soft, warm comfort, having struggled through a blizzard, feeling colder than even some of the deep […]

April 29, 2012 astrid

Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, and an occasional Piece of Insanity

My system was craving, screaming, begging for endorphins, in as huge doses as possible! My mind was working overtime, making my heart pound, my breathing shallow and my head and body ache. I had a thousand things I needed to deal with, some of which I had no idea even how to begin tackling. But […]