The smell


smoke-69124_1280Lost in thoughts I got off the tram. Out of nothing a pleasant smell surrounded me, promising untold treats. But I could not assign the smell. It was round, calming and challenging at the same time and I could not tell what was being cooked or backed.Read More »

Long hair


At the age of six I was very skinny, little below 20kg with very short hair. I looked like a boy. But I did not care. But only until we went on holidays to the little village. I played with the children from the village. All together there were four of us (respectively six, but the two youngest ones were too young to play with us). Almost like the Bullerby children. We climbed on trees and ate cherries belonging to someone else. And on one of those trees, Willy caught us. “Get down”, he said. Read More »