Nature has always played a big role in my life. I am a collector! My Stone Age ancestry doesn’t deny itself. My whole family consists of gatherers. In my childhood, we would go for walks and bring home flower sprouts for the garden, which my mother stole in other people´s gardens (– because to her View Post
Childhood Lies! Coming to Terms…
My dear sister, Sonja has been at it again. This time she pours her heart out about something that most parents are guilty of! I love reading her perspective of our childhood and how these rather humorous situations affected her! Now she's guilting me into changing my ways... - she's using her "big View Post
Parenting: One Size Does (NOT) Fit All – The Danish Version
My sister has been at it again. I think she is secretly enjoying writing for my blog - which is why I have given her this space. I love hearing her take on parenting - from a Danish point of view. We all know that each child is different, but how quickly and in which way do we recognize the View Post
Foster Your Child’s Love for Reading – At Any Age
I grew up in Denmark, in a small town, in a really tiny house. Our itty-bitty house was packed from floor to ceiling with books. These books were my world – and my world was large and wide. View Post
Lovingly Letting Go – The Last Email to My Dad
My dad suffered a massive brain bleed from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm on March 17, 2008. He never woke up from his coma, so my mom, sister and I followed his final wish of lovingly letting him go. He went Home on June 8, 2008. The following is my last email to my dad, which I asked my mom and View Post
The Last Email From My Dad – Six Years Ago
Today marks the 6 year anniversary of when I last received an email from my dad. The poem listed below was not written by my dad, but it is a perfect illustration of his, at times comical, relationship with the Danish language. My dad forwarded the poem in an email to me, my sister and my mom on View Post
Translating a Word that was Never Meant to be Translated
Each language has a few words that cannot easily be translated, and the Danish language is no exception. Danish is in general not as colorful and full of nuances as English. I often find when translating from English to Danish that some of the emotions are “lost in translation” simply because Danish View Post