Posts from ‘October, 2006’

In Sweden, the name for ”standard time” is vintertid – winter time. Knowing that, I guess it is only appropriate that this morning we woke up to see the first snow.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race! – Charles Dickens

While I was in the shower, the phone rang. The number on the dial was Italian. I checked on Pagine Bianche, and found that the number belongs to Pugliese Teodoro Impianti Elettrici.   All I can say to that, is WHAT?!  

Ok, so I didn’t make it to the final 12, but I kind of like the photos. I can’t understand why they didn’t airbrush away that shadow on my cheek, but almost all the girls had similar shadows from their noses. If I had known that I would have my photograph taken, I would for [...]

When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can’t go on, hold on – for that’s just the place and the time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe