Tales from Crete

The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the temperature is gradually creeping up to something that little by little starts to remind you that spring is on its way. The many harbingers of spring have already bloomed in...

Friday again and again time for a story and believe me, today will be a short one of its kind. Denmark, like large parts of the rest of the world, is CLOSED - quite literally. What we thought was improbable...

Yes, it was Friday again and once again you have to be burdened with a little story from me, and it is unfortunately not one of the most encouraging today. In the last few weeks, thousands of migrants have made...

I'm a big fan of doing weird calculations. Most often it ends up in something that I can't use for anything, or for that matter makes sense, but a few times it brings something useful with it. If you ask...

What do you do when you're sitting on a wet Thursday night like this and have just come in with a drenched dog, whose name is of course Raki, who, like me, didn't think it was funny at all to...

What's the meaning of life? It is something that man has asked himself throughout the ages. Why are we here and what is the purpose? When does it end, when did it start, and what happens after death? All these...

What is it that makes us do, act, react or act the way we do? To understand it, one has to start with some mythology and the curious development of the concept of “psi” (Ψ) (the twenty-third letter of the...

Don't know about you…. but as far as I'm concerned, it's really starting to pull in me, like a circus horse just waiting and waiting to get into the arena after a long winter period. It is of course Crete...

Even as a child (yes, it's many years ago now) I learned from my parents that there was never too little to share. I couldn't always fully understand that, because how were you supposed to share a Pinocchio ball, which...