2018-06-02 13:25
About 7 years ago, May 25, 2011, I published my very first blog-post. It was titled: NO EXPLANATION NEEDED, BUT HERE IT IS ANYWAYS, a bit disorganized, a shaky start, but anyways… Read More
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LIFE AS IT REALLY IS concentrates on observations with tongue-in-cheek of life around us - high giggle factor...
2018-04-01 13:05
When we stumble, we automatically blame the rock, the sidewalk or whatever. It’s an immediate and always very quick reaction. But instead, we should blame ourselves for being clumsy or… Read More
2017-12-01 14:16
About 6 years ago, I wrote a piece titled ‘COMPLIMENTS – if you dare anymore’. With today’s massive volume of sexual harassment suits and allegations, that piece was… Read More
2017-11-01 17:22
Sunday October 8th, 2017 was a very good day. My wife had been visiting family and friends in Sweden for a couple of weeks and would finally return Monday. I’d shopped groceries, clea… Read More
2017-10-01 22:10
We all fear failure; it’s a basic human emotion. But we really shouldn’t. Sure we don’t like to screw-up or make mistakes, as it deflates our self-esteem, inflates our inse… Read More
2017-08-01 18:00
I don’t want to be perfect or even be called perfect, because I consider it disturbing. Not that I have ever been called ‘perfect’ (like never), but if you, in a moment of… Read More
2017-07-01 12:54
Up front, let me assure you that this is not an advertisement for Fitbit or any similar products (they should be that lucky, huh?) It’s more so a metaphor for what I want to tell you… Read More
2017-06-01 16:00
I learned early on, that if we can’t make fun of ourselves, we shouldn’t make fun of anybody else. I’m not talking about mean-spirited stabs of evilness, as that has nothin… Read More
2017-05-02 13:38
No matter how much we consider sun-ups, sun-downs, death & taxes to be constant features in our lives, things we believe will never change, the reality is that absolutely nothing stays t… Read More
2017-04-01 19:10
Most of the time, we use the term ‘fan’ in a kind and soft way. We are fans of this and that and nobody questions us. But when we dissect the term ‘fan’ it becomes an… Read More
2017-03-01 13:23
I’m sure the title pulled you in. Of course I could have done: ‘circulating panties’, ‘revolving briefs’, ‘juggling thongs’ or something similar, bu… Read More
2017-02-01 13:41
Back in 1910, it was good old psychologist Henry H. Goddard (I called him ‘Hank’) who came up with the psychological term ‘moron’ – way to go, Hank. He used thi… Read More
2017-01-01 17:11
One thing is what we think and say, another is what we think and then totally keep to ourselves – forever. Never thought of that, have you? It’s actually a fascinating concept, s… Read More
2016-12-12 14:20
At times life sucks really bad; this is one of those times. My father-in-law just died and I’m utterly devastated. Though I’m a mature person (should be at 70) I still have the p… Read More
2016-09-01 13:25
Have you ever contemplated who the heck you really are, the “real” you, deep inside? I have and rather often. I really wonder who the “real” me is, the totally honest… Read More
2016-08-01 11:23
The Olympics were a lot more exciting back in the days. The unfortunately brief Greek tradition of athletic nudity is believed to have started in the games around 720 BC (BCmeaning: Before C… Read More
2016-07-01 11:31
You might also know it as the Fourth of July, July Fourth, the Fourth or simply as Day of Independence. We celebrate this day with hotdogs, hamburgers, beer, wine, parades, baseball, concert… Read More
2016-06-01 11:42
In this case, OMGmeans: Overtly Many Gadgets. Perhaps it doesn’t seem so obvious to anybody born after year 2000 or so, but to this OMG (Old Meandering Geezer) it still seems so bloody… Read More
2016-05-01 16:59
If you are an average human being, you are constantly carrying a trunk around; it’s part of our anatomy. It’s also called lower mid-section, I’m told. I thought trunks were… Read More
2016-04-15 11:56
We are constantly exposed to deception and deceit. Perhaps we are so used to being bluffed, that we more or less ignore it. That’s actually a good thing, as it would otherwise drive us… Read More
2016-03-15 11:17
Easteris a Christian and cultural festival. It’s called Easter because Westerwould sound really weird. As far as I understand, within the limits of my religious ignorance, it is to com… Read More
2016-03-01 12:37
We think it’s only a decision when it’s something big and substantial, like getting married, buy a house, having children, career choices or deciding what reality show to watch (… Read More
2016-02-03 19:18
In too many societies and cultures, winning seems to be the only way. Coming in second is rarely noticed and third place is seemingly occupied by losers. Anybody placed below third, why even… Read More
2016-01-01 12:31
We make them and we break them – seems to be the universal pattern, but let’s give ourselves at least an Afor effort (in the USA, an Ais equivalent to a top grade academically o… Read More
2015-12-01 23:34
After the first run of the bulls in Pamplona (Spain) this year, it was Stupid People 0 – Smart Bulls 8. Translated, that 8 people were badly hurt and the bulls went home without a scr… Read More
2015-11-02 13:18
No matter how real death should be for all of us, it’s a subject we do not talk about often – if at all. Perhaps it’s because we don’t want to awake an eerie omen or… Read More
2015-10-15 09:51
We all have crappy days – I hope; I know I do. To ‘excuse’ my once in a while unholy crappiness, I decided a long time ago, that it’s like a natural safety-valve that… Read More
2015-10-01 20:16
I despised babies. From the foul odored poo-poo diapers and vomit, to how adults were constantly drooling and talking in weird voices anytime a baby was near. But the dislike was more so bec… Read More
2015-10-01 20:16
I despised babies. From the foul odored poo-poo diapers and vomit, to how adults were constantly drooling and talking in weird voices anytime a baby was near. But the dislike was more so bec… Read More
2015-09-01 13:29
From parents and a huge assortment of aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas as well as from a lot of people we didn’t know or even cared about, we heard the proverbial: “What a… Read More
2015-08-04 04:39
I said final goodbyes to my mother after each of the about ten times I visited her during the last eight years. She lived in a home in the quaint little village of Vammen, somewhat smack in… Read More
2015-08-01 12:17
Imaginationis the process of producing mental images; perhaps some images not often based fully on any reality, but more so dabbling in colorful fantasies mixed with wild wishes. Cave-people… Read More
2015-07-01 12:01
At 7-8 years old I started to play football (some call it soccer around here, but I will use its rightful name: football). KFUM was the local club on the outskirts of Copenhagen where we liv… Read More
2015-06-21 14:12
Standing in the middle of over 9,000 white marble markers, placed above the D-Day landing site known as Omaha Beach, I could finally pay my heartfelt respect, my appreciation and utter awe a… Read More
2015-06-15 10:17
(Concerning full refund or full credit with respect to services purchased but not received).As a frequent flier through the last 50-some years, I have been utterly lucky as I have never miss… Read More
2015-05-01 12:05
I fully believe that they purposely did not advertise the musical piece Modulations by Grisey. If I had known that piece of… oh well, was on the program, I would not have wasted a Fri… Read More
2015-04-15 13:52
Do you actually know what ignorant or ignorancemeans, the true meaning of these two nasty sounding words? I think most of us are a bit ignorant about it, but that is not holding us back from… Read More
2015-04-15 13:52
Do you actually know what ignorant or ignorancemeans, the true meaning of these two nasty sounding words? I think most of us are a bit ignorant about it, but that is not holding us back from… Read More
2015-04-01 12:33
We do ‘I do’ a lot, especially when getting married. It’s the solemn promise we make, agreeing to live by defined rules within Holy Matrimony (not to be confused with the m… Read More
2015-03-15 11:24
If I’m not totally off track, we all want to live balanced lives, with a good mix of love, emotions, accomplishments, family and friends; the list is very long. But it’s a simple… Read More
2015-03-01 17:57
Not that I want to strut around in my birthday suit (for you foreigners, meaning so totally bare); but really, what’s the big deal? What is it that makes us so extremely uncomfortable… Read More
2015-02-15 16:44
I don’t know if you can actually call it “my life” in the Danish Armed Forces, as it was only a span of three years. I’m not really sure how the Danish National Guard… Read More
2015-02-01 16:27
I’m sure you fully realize how addicted we are to techno-gadgets today and especially to the somewhat pathetic dependence on our cell phones. The term smart-phone was invented as a ma… Read More
2015-01-01 19:32
A bit more on the promise-subject: I promise that this blog-post will be informative, entertaining, eye-opening and another ‘wow’ piece by yours truly (th… Read More
2014-11-16 12:04
A promise is closely related to expectations, as we always expect something when somebody makes us a promise. Other emotions involved are joy and disappointment, results of a promise kept or… Read More
2014-11-16 12:04
A promise is closely related to expectations, as we always expect something when somebody makes us a promise. Other emotions involved are joy and disappointment, results of a promise kept or… Read More
2014-10-31 11:14
Today is Halloween, but do you really know why? I didn’t think so; that is yet another reason you follow this blog – all the surprisingly interesting (at times useless) bits of i… Read More
2014-10-15 11:40
You seriously expected to win the $ 6 trillion lottery - you even bought a ticket; but you didn’t win. Byron totally ignored you at the office party - didn’t even notice your new… Read More
2014-10-02 23:06
Yes, at times I’m as blocked as the best of them, including Shakespeare and Hemingway. Of course they don’t have writer’s block anymore, but I sure have. It’s not a l… Read More
2014-09-15 12:12
When visiting foreign countries we are more or less forced to communicate with the natives. If we are real clever, we speak the local tongues fluently or we do what most of us do, wobble to… Read More
2014-09-01 12:40
At times we do stupid things. Then we must try to forgive ourselves and then promise not to do it again – ever. Most of the time we crave forgiveness from somebody else; the one we hav… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It seems like it. Are we really so pathetically excited, so disturbingly interested in the negative sides of life? It seems to be, for the simple reason that we are constantly fed fatalities… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I am referring to the stark reality that a lot more women must, should and will eventually participate much more in the leadership of this planet for a considerably better and safer future f… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Winter Olympics are in full swing. Twirling, gliding, sliding, jumping, shooting (yeah, I know, rather weird), flying, winning, losing, falling, crashing and so forth. We are thoroughly… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A friendship is the mutual affection and interpersonal bond by association, between two people or many people. A close and high quality friendship makes us a happier person, creating higher… Read More
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