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My eyes were blurry again all day today, and nothing seems to help. Not my new glasses, not eyedrops with antihistimine, not washing them out with water, not even leaving work early and resting them for an hour, though that did seem to help a little. I’m going to have to make an appointment with an eye doctor and see if they can figure out what is causing this and how to stop it. At least I know it isn’t diabetes since I had tests done last month to check. This has been happening, on and off, with no apparent...

Pow! Well, we didn’t get 2 feet of snow…exactly, but winter certainly arrived with a bang overnight. The snow we have gotten is the tiny and dry powdery crystal kind that swirls about and glitters in the streetlights without doing much about getting down to business and sticking. However, since the wind is blowing at blizzard strength, the snow we do have is piled in drifts here and there; up to 2 feet in places. In other places, not so much, just a dusty white coating. Since the winds and the freezing temperatures had been polishing the surfaces of all...

Wolf winds howl and swirl around the house all night. I wake constantly to the susurrus of the trees whipping restlessly to and fro. In the late morning the winds are still high and they howl in the ventilation shafts. Once in a while the house seems to shudder. I lie in bed and watch crows struggle to fly into the wind. Aerial acrobatics are dashing but futile and they grab for a passing branch to rest a moment before daring flight once more. A magpie skiphops across the yard, blown backwards one step for every three forward until he...

This morning the winds were high and wild and it was pouring down rain. Buckets. Sometime in the middle of the afternoon the sun came out for a bit. I saw the light from my office window, very briefly. I went into my boss’ office at 5 p.m. and said, “I can’t take it anymore. I quit…for this week.” And she laughed, and I laughed, and then I left. By then it was pitch black and raining again. The winds have picked up. Anders brought home sushi for dinner and I brought home 3 videos to watch this weekend, because...

Earlier tonight the full moon was the brightest spot in an otherwise pitch black world. The power went off around 6:30 and stayed off until almost 9…I was just about to start building “Karins wabsit things yahoo” with my daughter when with a whuff everything blacked out. Martin and the twins were playing in the playroom and they ran screaming for flashlights through the hallway and the living room, tripping over furniture and bonking into each other on the way. All photos by Anders Ek We got candles lit all over the house and then I had Martin fetch a...

We’ve been invited to a black tie cocktail party tonight, hosted by a colleague. We only had a week’s notice on the invitation because Francois knew I don’t drink so he thought I wouldn’t be interested in attending a cocktail party but my other colleague Barbara told him he should extend the invitation and let me make up my own mind whether or not we wanted to come. The biggest problem with this invitation wasn’t at all the drinks issue, it was the BLACK TIE. We are just not black tie kind of people. We don’t have any clothing that...

It’s been thundering and lightning all evening. And writing that sentence just made me realize that whenever we say that, we are using the word lightning as a VERB, just because it has an ing on the end. Really, it should be lightninging, which I just sat here and said several times out loud to see how it sounded, prompting my husband to say, “what?” in a confused tone from the living room. Last night I had dinner with my oldest girlfriends in Sweden, the women I became friends with first after I moved here, that is…it’s nothing to do...