Category Inspiration
My blog – my stage, my curtain, my mirror
I am a blogger at the same time as I am an Internet researcher and I reflect on my own blogging often. I started blogging (and facebooking) because I decided I needed to actively take part in the online environment, which I was studying. But since I also like writing and express my opinions and […]
At Emmaus broken things and people get a second chance
By helping others we can help ourselves Emmaus is a politically and religiously non-aligned international movement, whose mission is to help those in need and thus promote social justice and peace. There are 313 Emmaus groups spread over 36 countries. The Emmaus groups work with and for the poorest in society, to fight against the causes of […]
Något många yttrar på dödsbädden: “I wish I didn’t work so hard”
Jag skrev en uppsats när jag studerade socialpsykologi i USA för 10 år sedan med rubriken “Do americans work to live or live to work?”. Jag upplevde, när vi bodde där ett år i början av 2000-talet och igen när vi besökte vänner och släkt i somras, hur galet förhållande alla verkade ha till förvärvsarbete. […]
The fixers movement and repair cafés – an act of resistance
We throw away alot of stuff in Finland which become waste. Even things with almost nothing wrong and which after a simple repair could get a new life. In the Netherlands, Brazil and the US, a growing number of repair groups are protesting society’s throwaway mentality by fixing what is broken. To repair things when they […]
Chocolate fair with fair chocolate in Stockholm
It is wonderful to be at a chocolate fair but already after the first 10 samples one just have to take a break, drink some water, before one can take the next round. Because if you are a choclaholic you cannot stop even if you already have had too much IF there is chocolate available. […]
Blåbär och svamp som naturresurs och supermat
Bär och svampar är en enorm resurs för de som bor i dess närhet. När jag häromdagen gick ut i skogen för att hitta ännu några blåbär som duger som morgonmål (varje dag tror jag att jag ska hitta “de sista” ätbara blåbären) träffade jag på grannarna Marina och Harri med famnhunden under jackan som […]
Colin Firth’s interviews are never boring
Steve Martin says that movie interviews always are boring, but not these ones with Colin Firth. 2003 2010
Filmtalk on NPR and my household chores
What would I do without the movie programs from NPR? I guess live without them but my household chores would be more boring and my house more messy. When I can listen to Terry Gross talk to Colin Firth while cleaning the toilet or Larry Mantle discuss film with film critics in LA while sorting the […]
Fresh air movie interviews 2009-2012
What would I do without the movie programs from NPR? I guess live without them. But my household chores would be more boring. Fresh air movie interviews 2009-2012 Filmweek on AirTalk
A messenger in Chicago
Sonari Glinton tells the story of how a Catholic nun teaches an entire school on Chicago’s South Side by acting not by words. Sonari is a reporter for NPR News.
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 