For the first time in my entire life, I am actually younger today than I was yesterday—well, according to my health app, which has informed me my physical age is much lower than my biological age. I am taking this as a guarantee that my life expectancy has increased accordingly 😊 It’s interesting, this getting […]
I grew up with a mother who loved to swim. As a young girl she’d swum competitively, and like most good Swedish swimmers, she had a collection of swim badges. Some of those badges merely required swimming a specific distance—200 metres or 1 000 metres or 3 000 metres. Others were more of a combo:
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”Oh it’s a long, long while, from May to December. But the days grow short, when we reach September…” Frank Sinatra would sing, and my mother would sing along. This was one of her favourite songs—especially at the advent of autumn. Her other favourite was “Les Feuilles Mortes” . Both these songs are somewhat depressing: