Pam Andersson

Pam Andersson
Location
Sweden
Birthday
October 29
Bio
Afro-American-Swede living a relatively simple life in the south of Sweden

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APRIL 14, 2012 7:51PM

The death of a child (SAD)

Actually, not just sad, but devastating. Effing horrible. So just stop now if you can't deal with that sort of thing today.

You see, this isn't about the death of just one child, but two. And their parents. It's been all over the news in our parts. An entire family and/… Read full post »

APRIL 3, 2012 10:03AM

Recessions and riding schools

Some people just look good on horseback. I was about seven when I first started riding lessons. Although I am a bit unclear now about the year, I still remember the horse: a big bay mare named Bucky. She was supposedly difficult. I thought she was delightful. At Foxfield they start… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 14, 2012 2:49PM

A first on Valentine's Day

She is organised and I can tell right off the bat that this isn't her first tango. Early on, she lets us know that she likes to use a videocamera in her work, but only if we are alright with it. Soon, we get down to business and once again I… Read full post »

JANUARY 11, 2012 7:18AM

Marriage

You think you know who you are. You know what you like. You know what you want to do with your life. You know where you have been and what it did to you. You know what you will never do again. You take shit from no one.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011 4:54PM

A little math goes a long way...

 

I like numbers. I have always been good with them – their beauty and truth are appealing. Yet, when I asked my high school math teacher what I could do with my math skills, his reply was “There's always statistics” I became an English major instead.


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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011 2:08PM

Spam after 9/11

After 9/11, spammers started sending out e-mails saying things like "They are watching you!", "You are not safe!" and "We can see you, number 14" - anything to get people to click on a link. I wonder if these people ever stopped to consider what this type of thing can do… Read full post »
AUGUST 10, 2011 1:03PM

Going there (Open Call)

When I was in my early teens, a couple of years after moving to Sweden, I became more aware of the struggles of people who live outside of Europe and the U.S. My first ever taste of activism was when I participated in Amnesty's drive to collect signatures to abolish apartheid… Read full post »

AUGUST 6, 2011 4:48PM

A thank-you note of sorts

I wrote this post on Live Journal as a sort of thank-you note to my readers and friends there. Some people thought it worth sharing with a larger audience, so here goes:

 A few weeks ago when the  DDOS attacks on Livejournal started, I quite coincidentally, finally got around to… Read full post »

MARCH 12, 2011 8:45PM

On writer's block

No, I don't post much. If I am not careful, I will soon become known as "The Bi-annual Blogger". Look at me, joking rather than just getting to the point. The point being that this is neither poetry nor fine prose and there is no point.

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JUNE 19, 2010 11:18PM

Victoria Vitrix/Royalist for a Day

Photo by Niklas Larsson/Scanpix
 photo by Niklas Larsson/Scanpix
I grew up in Stockholm, one of the most beautiful capital cities in the world. At its center lies the royal palace, and its streets - many of them still paved with cobblestones, are rich with the history of kings past and the ghosts of… Read full post »
APRIL 13, 2010 8:55PM

A mother's lament

How my body still treasures you
- made to hold you
From hip to hip,
Diaphragm to pubic bone,
Puckered skin sags sadly,
Remembering the cadence of you feet

What you are, I once was
We are of the same source,
Cells,
         Yet not
One

With each passing day,
Hard as I may try,
My feet r…

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Editor’s Pick
JANUARY 19, 2010 5:39AM

Obama's first year - the world makes sense again, kind of

So, on Wednesday it will have been a year since President Obama took office. I have watched, from the other side of the Atlantic, how this event has changed much more than the face of American politics. Republicans pretty much describe him as an un-American, muslim, communist who wants to turn… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 17, 2009 9:59AM

In Meowmoriam


Today we mourn the passing of Missan "Mysan" Meow.

Born sometime in the late 1980s or early '90s, Missan was a part of the package when we bought our house at Berchshill. Due to an inability to get along with our other cats and a strong aversion towards our old dog, Hoshi,/…

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 10:36PM

Sleep issues, part 59

 Because I go through my fits of in-/hypersomnia, I take sleeping and the things surrounding it very seriously. My bedroom is for sleeping, period. I utilized that wonderful invention called a Fyndhörna* at IKEA to purchase the best, most comfortable mattress available. Unfortunately, Swede…

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 3:47PM

From sleep to reality to dreams

 The road trip caught up with me yesterday and I basically slept all day, pausing only for a meal and to take a call from a temp agency (When I mentioned that I had been ill, I could just hear the agent saying "Next..." to herself. I would be very surprised…

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 7:32AM

Progress

I have seen more friends in the past three weeks than I have probably seen in the previous three years:
There was lunch at Hillesgården, a nearby park, health center and restaurant and perhaps the best kept secret in the foothills to Hallandsåsen that I live in.
Then there was a trip to…

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009 9:47AM

Review of my Retriever

This is actually a reply to a post by LivingRheum that got too long, but I though some of you might be interested in how things are going with Mental, my service-dog-to-be.

My old dog died just after my second daughter was born and a friend who has MS convinced me to… Read full post »

AUGUST 25, 2009 4:24AM

Mom's 70th

Busy busy days here during the harvest season, which is also the birthday season in my family. My Mom turned 70 last week and my sister came over from the States to join us for a few days of good eating, playing with the kids and more driving than is good…

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JULY 30, 2009 3:54PM

Quality time

Sometimes making the glass seem half-full is a challenge, especially when my posts tend to be about pain and joblessness and... well, you get the picture. So let's try and alter the perspective, shall we?

For the past week, I've gotten a lot of job-applications written, read more (and consequentl…

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JULY 25, 2009 4:22PM


Michelle has finally returned to drawing pictures when given pen and paper, and does all her "writing" on the computer these days. What's even better is that her drawings have subjects - spiders with big, sharp teeth:




Our three-year-old has also developed a narrative voice, and share/… Read full post »
JULY 12, 2009 5:57PM

A taste of all things good

Every time I visited my Swedish grandmother, from when I was a little American girl used to American things, up until mormor Margareta was at least 88 years old, she would offer me a glass of home-made red currant juice. Lucky for me, about the time she stopped making her own…

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JULY 5, 2009 9:43PM

Insomnia, part 746

 Ok, I know I promised no more late night/ early morning posting recently, but this seems to be the only time of "day" that I am centered enough to actually post. So let me talk a bit about what's keeping me up at night...
 
I normally take a weak type of sleeping… Read full post »
JUNE 11, 2009 5:11PM

Yikes

Ok, no more 5 a.m. posting for me. If I am only going to post twice a month, I can at least run a proper spellcheck and aim for a little cohesion.
Good news, though, the carpenter brought along his carpenter friends and they got all of the wondows up before 4 p.m.

Interesting news:…

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JUNE 11, 2009 12:26AM

Sleep issues

I got up before dawn today to prepare for the arrival of the carpenter that will be replacing our old drafty windows with  modern ones. Of course, that alone would not normally get me out of bed at three a.m. - I fell asleep at 7 p.m. yesterday, so I happened…

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MAY 30, 2009 3:40PM

For Idahoswede

 A little pic from the garden. Now let's see if I can get LJ-cut to work today...

I love that my lupins are 3 shades of purple, but I'd really like pink ones like [info]idahoswede 's. Maybe we can trade seeds?
Lupin madness
This doesn't look like a cut in preview mode :( What am I doing wro
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