Author Archives: Anna

It is still cold and dark in Sweden. No summer. My trip to the USVI was intense and I didn’t have time to do much writing. I still have AI in my thoughts and need to catch up on many new areas. So interesting and what rapid development. The picture above is from a restaurant right by the sea in the Caribbean.

The daily press in Sweden describes the war in Ukraine as similar to a battlefield in the 1600s. Vice President JD Vance is negotiating peace. Finally, can there be an end to this war that is so close to us? I remember that former President Obama once said that a good leader must be able to meet the enemy and have a dialogue. Leadership in tough times.

I have had a little rest in my training. Spring is approaching, and we are moving towards brighter times. It is easier to live in a warmer climate, but the variety of autumn and winter has its charm. Currently, I long for and look forward to brighter and warmer times.

A few weeks ago I was hacked again and therefore, I haven’t been able to write. At approximately the same time, I learned that one of my best friends had passed away. An immense grief that I will carry for the rest of my life. Death is a part of life. Every person has their moment on earth.

Former President Jimmy Carter had just been buried in the USA when I arrived there. The flags were at half-mast the whole week I was in the USVI. I had my dear friend in my thoughts the whole time. What a coincidence. However, everything became real when I returned to Stockholm. No phone calls about everything between heaven and earth.

Life goes on no matter what happens. One day at a time. Everyday life is slowly starting to get longer and brighter with a presence and reality that is becoming increasingly sharper.

It is always nice to go to the USA. Especially in these days when there is turbulence in Europe due to war in the Ukraine. What would Europe be today if the American and British army didn´t invade Normandy in north France; often referred to as D-Day the 6th of June in 1944? This led to the liberation of France and Western Europe after being occupied by Germany. Thank God.

Yesterday I was in London and now I have stayed a night in Charlotte. I have never been here and I was embraced by a European feeling. It was cold, and perhaps a snowstorm is on its way.

There is much going on in the USA because a new president will be inaugurated by taking the presidential oath and taking office. I am going to the American Virgin Island St Croix and this Island has been Danish. Already, Donald Trump is trying to buy Greenland (which is Danish), just like America did with the Danish Virgin Islands.

A lot of people have been coughing for weeks this autumn and Christmas. I hope I will stay in shape and not beeing caught by a virus since people still are coughing.

I cross my fingers.

I wish you all the best for 2025. December went by so quickly and maybe it passes so fast because you know from experience that December is an intense and eventful month. This Christmas I didn’t have much Christmas feeling. Christmas candy is available in the summer, and cream buns are available during the Christmas holidays. Nothing is as usual anymore. This year I was mostly looking forward to a quiet weekend with a naive wish for peace on earth. I was looking forward to and hoping for a beautiful white Christmas Eve. I got my wish fulfilled. No hares but deers jumped across the field to Molly’s great delight.

Last Friday I took my 6th dose of COVID-19 vaccine. I like to exercise and stay active and I do not want to suffer from long-term Covid. Do you remember the orienteering deaths in the 1990s in Sweden? When orienteers died of cardiac arrest due to subacute myocarditis; caused by the TWAR bacteria, but it later turned out to be the Bartonella bacteria. Competing orienteers had to be quarantined from orienteering for several months. They were treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Many orienteers had probably unknowingly carried the infection for a long time. It was believed that sudden death was due to too little recovery between training sessions. The sports doctor said that the immune system works intensively for a period but requires rest and recovery to function optimally.

Sometimes people tell me that I have inspired them to read. That makes me happy. After working for many years on my book Generations, I have had a lack of inspiration. My next book will be about epigenetics; how environment and genes interact. There must be an enormous amount of information to be processed, I thought. Maybe AI (artificial intelligence) will be useful? After emailing a very skilled researcher in AI, I understand that AI is already being used. I was given recommendations on reading, and the fact that AI is already being used in reality in this area made me silent. I was overwhelmed by this tool that will lead to major changes. The pharmaceutical industry is already well on its way, I was told. Please see:  Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development.

Now it is a new year and a new year of exercise. There is no doubt that training has a positive effect on health. A fine example of epigenetics is long-term training which affects the genetic material of muscles, i.e. DNA. My genetic information;