Different Pen

I'm 16 years of age and on my first real trip to a foreign country. My childhood trips to neighbouring Sweden and Norway with my parents...

A car with a locked wheel, mental mentor meeting, almost moving my mother into a care home, three weeks of full-time vacation, several weeks...

Sleeping in peaceful, dark rooms. Books. Vanilla milkshakes. Candles. Women who know God. A weekend in a foreign city. Church windows. A lit...

Time for the only fun (or at least vaguely interesting) thing to do when you're the only one left in the office and everyone else is on ...

How to sneak up on a whooping swan, send a dead eagle through the mail, watch an almost entire match of women's football: things I'v...

Party season with lots of cake, a horrible flu, hiking among quiet lakes, a trip to Jeppis, several museums, a joyful Easter lunch, a Sunday...

Perceived absence of love equals presence of fear.  Critical thinking, a love of science and facts: these can co-exist peacefully and creati...