Next month The Lightning Tree will be out in the world! Woo-hoo! I thought I’d tell you a little bit more about it and what inspired me to write this story. Introduction The Lightning Tree is the first installment of The Natural Intelligence Revolution Trilogy. A contempo…

Happy Holidays, everyone! How are you doing? This has been a strange and difficult year, to say the least. In the middle of the pandemic, we moved from Kuala Lumpur and back home to Sweden. We landed in March, and enjoyed the light spring evenings and then the beautiful Swedish summer (I…

This time of year, I like to think back on the year we’re about to leave behind, as well as the possibilities of the one ahead. A few years ago, I started a tradition that has stuck with me: to choose a theme word in the beginning of the year to guide and inspire me as I pursue my goals. …

When our girls were small and the days whirled by in a daze of everyday stress and mess, we tried to squeeze in some quality parenting as often as our sleep-deprived brains could muster. One of the principles we felt was important to teach them, was gratitude. So when they got something nice…

Since I wrote my last blog post: This Will Be Interesting, I’ve had a very “interesting” couple of months. Without going into details, let’s suffice it to say that last year was not my best one, but by no means my worst. All in all, 2018 was a good year, but at the same time a string of disappoi…

Have you ever felt overwhelmed? Ok, that was a rhetorical question, I am sure you have, as have I, many times. Life is hard. Sometimes it feels like stuff is thrown at us with lightning speed. We are filled with questions regarding the future: How will we manage? What if…? What if not…? The …

Happy New Year, everyone! As we’re beginning this new year, I have been thinking about creativity, especially since I’ve experienced a surge in inspiration this past week after we returned from our holiday in Sydney, Australia. Still a little jet lagged from our trip, new ideas for writing proje…

Many authors go on a Writing Retreat from time to time. Which usually means they go away to a cabin, or some sort of a resort, alone or with fellow writers, to concentrate on their writing, sometimes financed through a scholarship or a foundation. Writing Retreat. For a long time those words sou…