year summaries

We’re are getting full swing into the holidays now, and enjoying every minute of it. We’re not going all-out-crazy with every moment filled with holiday fun, but we are soaking up moments whenever we…

Spotify did a cool thing. They created my very own special playlist for me. The playlist was created + based on my top played songs throughout the year. And it is freaking amazing. It’s like…

Happy Thanksgiving! For me, of course, it’s just a regular day here in Sweden. Although I did get home from work just in time to live stream Santa arriving in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day…

well, you guys. it’s labor day weekend. and, for americans, that means that it is the last official weekend of summer. time to start shifting gears + winding down into the coziest season of…

Here we are. Halfway through 2016.  Mind-blowing, huh?! I don’t know about you, but it’s been one helluva year so far. In the best possible + most incredibly challenging ways all at the same…

on the first day of 2015 i embarked on a journey of empowerment. i knew that i had to take action this year. i knew that a lot would be changing. but, i had…

the photo above was taken on new year’s eve in 2009. just 5 days after lina and i had gotten married. we were in uppsala celebrating, visiting lina’s brother, his girlfriend (now wife), and…

yesterday i invited you to join me in beginning the journey of choosing our words for for the upcoming year. if you haven’t seen yesterday’s post, or haven’t had a chance to begin think about…

so, my friends, do you ever choose a word of the year? a word to focus on and help inspire you? if you haven’t embarked on this soul-searching, visioning, intention-setting journey, then i highly…

happy hump day, friends! time for my third, and next-to-final, countdown as i look back over my 2015. over the past two weeks i counted down my top instagram photos and my year in music. and today,…

i’d say that there are two things that inspire me the most in my life: nature and art. within art, i’d place literature, painting, graphics, photography, drama, film, and… music. through nature i find…

it’s no secret that i love, love, love photography. and to get my daily photography fix, i use instagram like it’s going out of style. seriously, i am a major, self-proclaimed instagram addict. but,…