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Fall, Once Again!
Fall is the season that makes you want to crash in front of the TV, read books, and listen to your favorite audiobooks and playlists. It is the perfect excuse to indulge in behavior such as baking more-than-good-for-you cakes, muffins, and cookies, even now, with the current stomach-turning price levels for electricity and food…
How to Get Through Tough Times
So, how do I deal with being persecuted by Danish extremists and criminals with links to criminal groupings in France, as well as the Danish police force, which has, truth be told, now and then left me in the dumps? Here’s a brief overview of my method for maintaining balance, a positive spirit, and sanity when the world around you is horrible and sickening!
Police Force Under Scrutiny
A 48-year-old police officer at Fyns Politi (Funen Police) has been charged with numerous cases of abuse of position and breach of confidentiality. The sentence is up to three years in prison. According to the indictment, the police officer in question conducted a number of searches in the police databases “without proper cause,” and, in one situation, he allegedly created a fictitious case. The officer is also said to have shared confidential photo material.
Paris Times Three
They say life happens when you are busy making other plans – well, that may be true, but sometimes life stops when you are busy living. The world keeps spinning along; you are still breathing, but something got in the way of your life.
My Inner Parisian
You know that feeling when you have lived in a place for years, and it becomes part of your lasting memories, and you give a little extra attention to that place for, I guess, the rest of your life? I feel that way about Paris. I lived and worked in Paris from 2008 to 2014 (excluding an intermezzo). And it was a good life, and I made that iconic city my home. So my soul-big-city-home is still Paris, for better, for worse, until something new comes along to replace it.
Out of the Grumpiness
When you lose a dog, it feels like life has ended. You think that you will never, as Lady Gaga sang, love again. But then, one day, suddenly, 1 ½ years after your fur-BFF passed away, something happens. You realize you have returned from the land of perpetual grumpiness.
My 2023 Plan
Estrangement Will Darken
Over the past months, I have realized that the leap from estrangement to revulsion is very short.
Darkness
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
Tom Stoppard
All Shall Die
“Certain, ‘tis certain; very sure, very sure: death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all: all shall die.”
— Shakespeare, Henry the IV, Part 2, Act III, scene II
My Never-Ending Apartment Story Part 1
In life, you lose nonstop – youth, looks, money, friends, illusions. But sometimes, you win in court. And so, after two years of paperwork and courtrooms, on January 28, 2022, a French court ordered my former 2019 Paris landlord to return my full security deposit, plus two years’ interest. This decision is a step in the right direction and a way to put part of my nine weeks in hell behind me.