Back to blogging!

I took a month(?!) off from blogging. Haha it sounds like blogging is hard work and as if I’ve been doing it for ages, when in fact writing is something I do for myself anyway, regardless if I post it in a blog or not, and that I have been doing for ages. Blogging though, I only started in December! Anyhow, I was away during the holidays, I’ve had to work on some projects that took up most of my time, and I have been doing a little thinking on this blogging-thing.

My blog on your phone!

So far I've made Stockholm Serendipity available in a mobile phone friendly format. This way it looked nicer and was easier to read on the screen when you checked my posts on the go, yet you would see the full website version if you were reading from your computer. However, many of you readers have told me that the mobile friendly version, although working graphically better on your phones, does not provide an easy option for submitting comments and pressing the "LIKE"-buttons for Facebook, Twitter etc. (Yay, I'm happy so many of you are eager to comment on the stuff I write and really want to hit the LIKE to inspire others to explore my blog!) Therefore, I am trying a change today.

On the topic of serendipity

Serendipity. Not the most common of words. I only learnt it some 6-7 years ago when I was in graduate school in the States. It was my social anthropology professor who used it in class when he was telling the story of an anthropologist in history who had made a random but all the same a very exciting discovery without even having been looking for it. My professor, Prof. C., had to pause his story to tell the class what the word meant as I believe almost everyone in the room, including my American native English speaking class mates, looked questioning at him when he had the described the anthropologist’s pleasant discovery as pure serendipity, quite the serendipitous moment. I remembered that moment in class, scribbling down the word in my notebook the way I guessed it should be spelled, I think got it right (!), and rolled it over my tongue. I loved that word - Serendipity.