Years ago I heard a random radio-program about families and relationships, where one of the stories told was of a family in the US where the mother was unable to care for her children, who were subsequently taken away from her. In the years that followed, the only contact she had with her children was [...]
I'm sitting here in the idyllic Swedish summer-landscape and enjoying the quiet and the beauty. Meanwhile, there is a cruel war raging at home between Israel and Gaza. Hundreds of children in Gaza have been killed, amongst a huge amount of civilian victims. More than 60 Israeli soldiers too, two of whom I have a [...]
In an unknown location, probably somewhere in the West-bank, three Israeli youngsters are held hostage as I write these lines. They were kidnapped while trying to hitch a ride home to their families from school last Thursday. Eyal Yifrach is 19, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Frankel are 16. I have a 19 year old son. [...]
Two weeks ago we had a really big snowstorm, the heaviest snows in at least 20 years. I loved it. The crisp, clean air, the sparling beauty, the quiet, the hot chocolate, the gloves drying on the heaters and no school. Maybe I love it because I grew up with snow, or maybe because I [...]
I distinctly remember when JFK was killed. I remember seeing it on TV and magazine-covers and the grown-ups talking and that everybody was very upset and sad. Except it’s a false memory. I was only two at the time and we did not own a TV until years later. Those memories must have been formed [...]
