I have started a newsletter over at Substack. It is called Lusaka Letters and I intent to write it twice monthly to begin with. I have not decided to stop publishing here on the blog completely, but have felt uninspired to blog recently and found the newsletter form more exiting right now. I write it like it is a letter home, or away, to someone. … Continue reading Lusaka Letters
As time moves and the summer (in Sweden) passes by, I still find myself writing small bits and pieces. I didn´t continue with the classic literature course since I early on felt it was not what I wanted right now. I just want to write creatively about anything I feel like writing about. I journal. I sit with my writing projects and try to write … Continue reading Still thinking about writing
As usual when I don’t have time to publish something here it is because I am extra busy. Things happening in my life that takes me away from the writing momentum I need, to be able to create. And this time the things that happened where joyful and fun. My parents have been visiting and we took a trip to Northern Zambia that we have … Continue reading Thoughts on seasons
The time we live in have had me thinking a lot about the privileges I have in my life right now. For example such a simple thing as a safe home. It is very sad to think about how many people around the world that does not have a home, none the less a safe one. I have one. My family have one, we are … Continue reading What makes a home?
Sometimes life just spins on and I don´t have space to put down in words what is going on. I journal less, I write less and I come up with less ideas for the blog. But one thing I always do is to snap photos on a daily basis. The smartphone is the best thing ever for me when it comes to taking photos. Before … Continue reading The Changala life through my Camera roll
February has so far been an interesting experience. Schools are up and running so my main job is to be the kids chauffeur and do the school runs. When I come back home in the mornings I have time, for almost the first time in my life, to do whatever I feel like. And what I do right now is mostly my studying, writing and … Continue reading Article in The Buzz Zambia
And then we are already a week into February! Time do really fly by. Even if I did complain over January, I still do not want to miss living my life. Had a good reading start on the year, but sometimes when all I do is reading, I feel like I am missing out. I do know that for me reading and resting is necessary. … Continue reading Words on reading and resting
January is finally coming to it´s end. It has felt like 90 days instead of soon 30. Everybody keeps telling me “January is always long”, but I have never really felt like that before. In Sweden I always felt it was grey, cold and dark, but February has less days and feels as grey, cold and dark. This year though, January has showed it´s true … Continue reading Monthly wrap up
Time seems to be moving slow. So slow. Right now. Another second, minute, day, they just drag themselves forward. We are all still right in the pandemic and here in Zambia we are just in the slow down of the forth wave. That meant that the government pushed the school start forward, from the 10th of January to the 24th. And as parents putting their … Continue reading January funk
New year, new dreams? For me, not really. Same dreams and time is just moving on. To be honest I had nothing against leaving 2021 behind. It was a year of great things, like a intercontinental move, but also a year of loss. My grand mother died in April, we left Sweden behind (I love living in Zambia but when having two countries there is … Continue reading Farm dreams
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