Let's put it into words.
Here's this writer's tale…
My life began in quiet enough surroundings. I was born in rural Sweden in the eighties, and my hunger to explore the world drove my post-university career. Eventually, I became an office nomad so I could try life on for size in vastly different corners of the globe. Having lived in San Francisco, Auckland, London and Hong Kong, I eventually boomeranged back to Scandinavia by way of Denmark.
In London, I learned the marketing ropes, feeling like the luckiest person alive from my office a stone’s throw from Soho. During the week, I worked in financial publishing, and on weekends I explored the hidden nooks and crannies of London. The first company to give this freshly-minted graduate a chance was publishing house Incisive Media, and the second was Mergermarket, then part of the Financial Times group.
Some years later, work catapulted me to the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong where I took a deep dive the Asia-Pacific region, immersing myself in work but also in travelling to places I had barely heard of before. Living in a place like Hong Kong is an experience one never forgets. It has the fiery energy of a wild party, yet it rests on centuries of Buddhist wisdom. It’s a place of contrast: of crowded skyscrapers with nature, of densely populated areas with green hills that seem to exist on the edge of the world.
Marriage to my lovely Danish man prompted a move back to Scandinavia, and work-wise I landed a new marketing role at the beautiful Copenhagen Business School campus. Working for the MBA department still allowed me to travel – in pockets – which I cherished. During the years that followed, our daughters arrived, and we happily put down roots in the green city of Copenhagen.
Recently, my family and I decided to move yet again, but this time within the borders of Denmark. Craving wild trees and muddy soil, we left city-life behind for a more quiet life in the countryside. These days, we’ve settled into a minimalist townhouse a short drive from Hamlet’s haunting castle, and spend our vacations in our tiny house on the Swedish west coast where I grew up. In the evenings, we try new vegetarian recipes and hang out with our girls and on the weekends we pack picnics, put our bite-sized family dog in a basket and go biking in search of local adventures.
After more than a decade in marketing and communications, I decided it was time to set out on my own, focusing on the content niche that I love the most: creating stories. In the evenings I write short stories and poems for literary journals. Life has moved on from the hectic office days I used to love but this is what life does best: it changes. And the best part is that I get to keep the people I’ve met along the way, one way or another.