I have updated this post originally published December 30, 2014 We didn’t have television until the beginning of the sixties. One day my parents and my twin brother and I were watching something. Suddenly Montgomery is seen in his open car coming slowly through a street in Copenhagen with four British soldiers on motorbikes at each side of the […]
My parents bought a table and chairs in nut tree when they got married in 1948. They kept the furniture in their home all their life and now the same pieces of furniture live on in my daughter’s house. The wooden garden table is now in my garden. It was originally in the summer-house my parents bought as a springboard […]
#3 in a series on “Safe Motherhood Week” focusing on my own experience. This post was originally published two years ago. #1 Safe Motherhood Week #2 Ideas on Safe Motherhood My Own Story I was inspired to write about the subject “Maternity Depression” as I found a new blog today called “Writing at the table” by Dana Schwartz. She is […]
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Today Was a Good Day.” I have noticed that I function better among people in real life after all this writing practice. I started to blog one and a half-year ago, writing from my heart on different subjects, challenged by the different writing and blogging courses from WordPress. Through all the years I […]
In Danish we have two words for grandmother. A grandmother on mother’s side is “Mormor”, mother’s mother and a grandmother on father’s side is “farmor”, father’s mother. My parents & Emry and Asta my grand parents and our first summer 1951 I don’t know how it is in other languages but here in my country it’s like you have to […]
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Today’s Prompt: Go to a local café, park, or public place and write a piece inspired by something you see. Today I hade done too much exercise. After having run 12 km I went to a step class. I wasn´t too good this afternoon and my “boiled spaghetti” legs wanted to leave. I stayed anyhow…
For my story about my relation to the huge Swedish furniture concern I wanted to find a special picture from an IKEA catalog from 1969. On the front page was a picture of a ship’s couch. The wooden shelves underneath the mattress was painted in a bright red shiny color and the mattress was covered with navy blue thick cotton material. […]
I have had many homes, but as the years pass by I feel more and more relaxed in my home
Looking back at the age of fifteen in three generations 1938, 1966 and 2000
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays My childhood My teenage time The present time When I was a child in the fifties, I was put to bed very early at nights. Our parents were very strict on that, and there were no exceptions. The television had not yet […]
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