When you create nothing

When you create nothing

What are you really doing? Yes, it’s a question that keeps coming back when you’re doing oral storytelling. It’s an exhausting question because there are things in the question that suggest I’m not actually contributing anything socially beneficial. I love...
Women and cats

Women and cats

In the metaverse Second Life, I came across skeletons of cats. That in turn made me think of the story that appeared in the media and that my mother reminded me of, namely a woman who was surrounded by quite a lot of cats, so many cats that it had become a nuisance to...
Violence

Violence

Folk tales and legends can be violent. Is it because they were written down at a time when this was part of everyday life? Take, for example, the Norwegian folk tale The Blue Ribbon, which can be found in the collection of Asbjørnsen and Moe. There it is violence...
Is the Christmas stress genetic?

Is the Christmas stress genetic?

The other day I received a letter in the (snail) mail, it was an advertising letter. Just getting a letter in the mail and even a commercial thing could be a post in itself, but that’s not what it is about. In the advertisement there was a recipe for how to make...
Nissen and the horse

Nissen and the horse

Theodor: “Neither before nor since have I got such beating”. In Oslo there I awa glimpse of a thin layer of snow in the morning, but then it was gone. Outside the Christmas spirit shows its absence, and it is the same indoor. I had to have stories about...