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Puppies in the window
(Or internet dating)
Feb 3
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Cary J Hansson
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January 2024
Cowboys and calm
(the great battlefield of change)
Jan 27
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Flight paths
Years ago, in the final months of my first marriage I bought a lovely duck-egg blue tablecloth. A quintessential cheery cloth, the kind you might see in…
Jan 20
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In praise of disposable tweezers.
They say that change is as good as a rest, which is welcome news … because the two weeks I took off from 5 minute reads, wasn’t a rest. I’ve been…
Jan 13
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December 2023
Years that answer
‘There are years that ask questions and years that answer.’ Zora Neale Hurston I wish I could claim Zora’s line as my own. It’s astonishingly profound…
Dec 20, 2023
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The Secret Superpower of Midlife: Part 3
This week, it’s really just for the laughs. Because it’s true. I’ve written about it before, but there’s no harm in repeating the message. Midlife…
Dec 13, 2023
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Paper stars.
Yesterday I found myself wandering through the Christmas section of a nearby department store. It’s cold here in Stockholm. Minus fifteen. And it’s…
Dec 6, 2023
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November 2023
A life.
My mum turned eighty seven this week. Here’s a few facts about her. She was born at home, one month early, weighing around four pound. Four pound, is…
Nov 29, 2023
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A perspective on bed bugs
(or how to make friends and keep them)
Nov 22, 2023
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A new way to chat.
My friend’s mum is getting married. She’s eighty-seven, (the mother, not the friend). There are discussions to be had, arrangements to be made and as…
Nov 15, 2023
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A capacity for change
I know. It’s a somewhat oblique title and photo this week. Hear me out. On the 5th November 1605, a chap by the name of Guy Fawkes set a plan to blow up…
Nov 8, 2023
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5 things that are not my fault
...and for which therefore, I will neither apologize, nor explain myself ... nor sit on the naughty step.
Nov 1, 2023
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