On Monday our digital camera finally met its inevitable end after being dropped one time too many by Tage. After doing a bit of comparison shopping online, Olof ordered a new one yesterday (it’s a Panasonic DMC-FZ5, for those of you who care about that sort of thing) and it was delivered less than 24… Read More New Hardware

Oh, and I really cannot stand Coldplay. Chris Martin’s voice makes my teeth hurt.

After getting a slow-ish start, winter came to us all in a hurry over the weekend. We had near-blizzard-like winds and snowfall all day Saturday and now our yard is covered in mountains of snow. We’ve got about a foot-and-a-half of new snow and in some places the drifts are up past my knees. Frightful,… Read More Tuesday

It’s traditional in Sweden to serve seven kinds of cookies when having people over for coffee, and to that end I’ve been baking most of the afternoon in preparation for our hosting the family Christmas Eve festivities tomorrow afternoon. So far I’ve made butterscotch brownies, Brazilian coffee cookies, candy cane cookies, acorn cookies, ingefärssnittar**, and… Read More Sju sorters kakor*

Lydia may be a little angel, but the other two lean a bit more toward the fiendish side:     And a gratuitous shot of Ola, because who doesn’t like a cat in a box?  

When I was a kid I loved school. LOVED it. On the last day of first grade, when the rest of the kids in town were rejoicing, I cried in the car on the way home. And when I say “cried,” I don’t mean just a few tears; I mean great, wracking sobs. I was… Read More Model Student

The new issue of Mosaic Minds went live last night, and it’s jam-packed with terrific stuff! I contributed quite a bit this time, including two feature articles, craft, book, and recipe columns, and an excerpt from my novel in progress. (Why does it sound so phony and pretentious to say that I have a novel… Read More Extra, extra!