Micro.blog Rainbow Logo
Add a touch of rainbow magic to your Micro.blog for Pride Month, or keep it sparkling all year. Easy CSS tweak, works with most themes.
True success is daring to fail
Success often comes from embracing failure and the messy journey required to achieve it.
High on low expectations
Lowering our expectations can lead to greater peace and contentment in life, as it helps us embrace its unpredictable nature without tying our happiness to specific outcomes.
Photo challenge day 24: Bloom — taken during the annual flower festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand 📷🇹🇭
A life in motion
A shift in personal preferences towards more realistic stories suggests a natural evolution in taste influenced by various life factors.
Photo challenge day 23: Fracture 📷
Blog Recycling
Desmond Child’s songwriting illustrates how different artists can transform the same creative seed into unique expressions, similar to how blog posts can evolve over time as we grow and gain new perspectives.
Photo challenge day 22: Hometown 📷
Dalarö, Sweden on June 17, 2025 using iPhone 15 Pro Max. Taken from a taxi boat in between jobs. 📷
Micro.blog Question Challenge
A while back, Ava kindly invited me to take part in her wonderful initiative, the Bear blog question challenge. You can read my answers here. Now that I’m on a new platform, I thought it would be fun and interesting to do a Micro.blog version of the same challenge. Below are Ava’s original questions, but with Bear swapped out for Micro.blog (and the tags part removed, since MB doesn’t use tags).
Photo challenge day 21: Silhouette
Ko Chang, Thailand on November 20, 2019 using iPhone 11 Pro 📷
Swedish Midsummer: family, frogs & flowers
Today is Midsummer’s Day here in Sweden. Of all the holidays we celebrate, this might just be the biggest. Yes, even bigger than Christmas. This year, I spent it with my family in Åkersberga, the neighborhood where I grew up. It was a lovely day with great weather, lots of people, and of course, the iconic Midsummer pole. Part of the tradition involves decorating the pole with flowers and birch branches before raising it.
Photo challenge day 20: Gather 📷
Perfect timing with today’s prompt since it’s Midsummer Eve celebration here in Sweden today. 🥳🇸🇪
Micro.blog Wishlist
It’s been a couple of weeks since I moved my blog to Micro.blog, and it’s been a nice experience so far. I like the possibilities the platform provides without having to come up with half-baked workarounds. But, as with any platform, there are some things I miss. Here are some that first come to mind for me: Category Description I’d love to add some text to the categories I create. Nothing fancy, just a simple description with Markdown support.
Finding my genuine English voice
My blogging workflow used to involve writing in Swedish and then translating it into English. I did it that way to make the writing process as smooth as possible. Today, I decided to try writing in English from scratch. It doesn’t feel natural, and it takes longer, but I want to give it a fair shot. Maybe it’ll help calm my recurring blogging overthinking (probably not). But the main reason for this change is that I think my writing will be more “true.
Photo challenge day 19: Equal 📷
From one of the stops during yesterday’s work in the archipelago. Silverpilen = Silver arrow. 📷
The overthinking blogger
I’m dragging my feet when it comes to writing this post. Or rather, publishing it. Not because I find it embarrassing (well, okay, maybe a little). But mostly because I’ve touched on this topic so many times before that it’s starting to feel boringly repetitive. If you’ve followed my blogging for a while, you already know what it’s about: my ambivalence about blogging. On one hand, I love blogging. On the other hand, I never quite seem to figure out how I want to do it.
Photo challenge day 18: Texture 📷
Never forget to remember
Today I spent the whole day working in the Swedish archipelago. A colleague and I traveled around by water taxi, visiting several fantastic islands of varying sizes. On days like this, it almost feels wrong to call it work. It feels more like a vacation. Beautiful weather, open water, stunning nature, and places that seem straight out of a fairytale. Of course, not every workday looks like this. There are only a handful like these each year, but I’m just as grateful every time.