My child laughing in his sleep holds the same magic to me as rainbows, aurora borealis, hummingbirds, whale spouts, shooting stars and fire flies.
It is fleeting – there one second, and gone the next.
I question my senses – ”is that really what that was?”
And [...]
Office setting somewhere in Denmark.
Background noises of people chattering, typing, phones ringing.
Two very doughy, coarse, pale middleaged women sitting across from each other, typing.
…
1, without looking up from her screen: If I were a guy, I’d go for a woman from Thailand or somewhere like that. They are so petite and [...]
Welcome to the eighth in a series of articles entitled: Awesome Women with Awesome Jobs.
I was looking at my friends list on Facebook one day and it suddenly struck me that I know so many absolutely awesome women with rather special jobs. Jobs that are not just about pulling home a paycheck. No, these [...]
Dear diary,
I was cleaning up the attic today and stumbled upon an old box of memorabilia, and what do you know? I found my old glass slipper! It sure did bring a tidal wave of memories!
How strange, it seems like it was both a million years ago, and only yesterday I went to [...]
One of my Facebook friends has recently been posting updates from the hospital, where her young son is in treatment for leukemia. Sometimes her updates are angry, sometimes hopeful, sometimes grateful and last time, she was in despair. Now, I am not really friends with her in real life – we briefly worked together and [...]
02:34 am: 3 year old enters bed. Wants water. Needs own duvet. Get up and get it. He hogs pillow.
04:12 am: Cat does this scraping on closet-thing resulting in Hubby getting out of bed, walking downstairs, whistling, opening the door and letting cat out. Am impressed with cat’s insights into Pavlovian psychology and ability [...]
I had my first tonsillitis of the season in October. Complete with a fever and 10 days of penicillin. Got better in about a week, as these things go. Was ok for about a week. Got my next tonsillitis. More penicillin. Was ok for about 10 days. Got tonsillitis again. It is now the beginning [...]
Apart from a few years where I was living abroad and one year in my youth where I got very drunk very early, all of my December 31sts of my entire life have been spent in the company of the Queen, Her Majesty Margrethe II of Denmark.
If you are like most people, you need three things in December: vitamins, color and delicious food. (Actually, if you were like most people, you wouldn’t be reading this. Sigh!)
Setting off a regular firework of orange, purple and green, this salad is is an orgy of vitamins and flavour. It takes some chopping – [...]
Welcome to the sixth in a series of articles entitled: Awesome Women with Awesome Jobs.
I was looking at my friends list on Facebook one day and it suddenly struck me that I know so many absolutely awesome women with rather special jobs. Jobs that are not just about pulling home a paycheck. No, these [...]
