May 7, 2020. As we have been confined to our homes for many weeks, it seems like one day merges into the next. If you feel you are loosing grip on your sense of time, you are not alone. It appears to be a common psychological reaction to the lockdown experience. Psychologists tell us that change is an important physical and emotional marker for our sense of time, and even for memory building.
Read MoreAs so many millions of us are stuck at home this springtime and early summer, it is important to keep engaged with our plans for trekking and travelling. The current severe restrictions will eventually pass, and we will once again have the opportunity to surround ourselves with the beauty of the outdoors.
When it comes to hiking and trekking in Southern Norway
Read MoreThe book is good to go, the last galley proofs have been read and re-read. Websites checked for accuracy and the last small adjustments incorporated. Pushing through with the challenges of getting from manuscript to finished book has been a surprisingly intense process. Exhausted and exhilarated at the same time I press the button to upload the final version to my publisher, anticipating the tactile experience of what it will be like to finally hold my book in my hands in just a few months time.
What happens next, I did not see coming…
Read MoreTime has flown indeed. Five seasons have come and gone. End 2018, a winter of writing and researching in Amsterdam, and then springtime saw me working on my book in the public library in Stavanger. The third floor working area there became my regular hangout. Computer and thermos filled the daypack, the very same thermos
Read MoreThe long summer evenings of hiking in Norwegian mountains are long gone, winter has settled into Amsterdam with a cold, biting wind that makes it easy to sit inside, research and write on a new book.
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