“Mine your own material” Day 16 in our writing 101 course: I did a post on IKEA recently and I was asked to show my readers what effect that has on my home. Thank you for the idea Janelle! Many people love to hate IKEA. I don’t because I have good memories about getting something nice that I could afford. I […]
My fellow blogger Yulia a from the blog Tiny Expats has this blogging event and I would like to take part in that event. Our libraries are totally different today. I remember libraries as very silent places with rows of bookshelves and small boxes for the small children. I liked very much to walk around and look at the titles as a child and young person. […]
Sometimes you should have a look at your attractions in your home town
Looking back at the age of fifteen in three generations 1938, 1966 and 2000
A question about Hans Christian Andersen from a Fellow blogger helped me to read some of his wise stories again.
Today’s assignment on the writing 101 course is to look at our stats to see what posts our readers prefer. I often look at the stats because I find it so interesting to see which countries my readers come from. Most come from the United States, and the rest are Danish and then from many other countries. That’s a privilege to […]
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Connected.” The photos I have chosen are connected in the way that the toys are all about a hundred years old and the children on the roof of a house in Copenhagen are collecting money for poor children in 1914. Mesh
Last Friday I was telling you a story while we were having coffee. My husband and I were going to take a trip in the footsteps of a boy from Funen in Denmark who would later become a very famous Danish-American called “The Builder of the West”. He was born in 1864 and died in 1933 and his name was Hans […]
My mother used to say Did you remember to take a look around if you have everything? when I and my children had left. Then she would collect the forgotten items and send the most important ones. I sent a bunch of house keys yesterday.
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Do Not Disturb.” This past Sunday, my father would have been 95 years old. I now think about him with warm feelings, but it’s been a long way to come to that. I have mentioned my relation to him in a post called “My Long Journey to Overcome Fear.” He was born […]
From one Heart to Another 