Skateboard Park
It's hard to believe this was once the famed skateboard park of Rockhammar. Now the forest has almost taken it back. You can still sometimes hear the laughter of children now old. Smell the blood of scraped knees. You can … Read More
Summertime in Rockhammar
It's been three years since we've been here in the summertime. Without the winter snow to dampen the ghosts, memories of an alternative future flood my heart. It was here at the white table where we sat and grilled sausages … Read More
How to Defend a Goal
Simon coaches Patrick on how to defend the goal against a penalty. Despite the fact that he is only three, Simon knows the game. It's in his blood with father a member of the famed 75s of Adolfsberg IK, mom … Read More
Kidnappings in Kashmir
After a lifetime of hard knocks, he’s still going like the Energizer Bunny. Childhood beatings, English boarding school horrors, kidnappings in Kashmir, alcoholism, divorces, a major stroke, falls, cracked bones: nothing can break him. In this moment, in the sunshine … Read More
Rooftop Beer Garden in Stockholm
From a rooftop beer garden, we get this view. It's easy to forget we sit atop millennia of blood and culture. Thousands of years before Christ, during the Stone Age, strong Viking warriors settled here and built a city to … Read More
Vasastaden
On the first day, we walk around Vasastaden to keep the jet lag at bay. Time travel is hard on the soul. The body flies fast in a shining metal time machine and reaches the other side while the soul … Read More