Culture
Peter Pan was never just a story about a boy who refused to grow up. In an age of algorithms, endless entertainment and digital escapism, Neverland feels less like a fantasy—and more like a mirror.
Housing
Moving house is often described as a practical task. In reality, it can become a logistical marathon, a financial endurance test, and a surprisingly lonely experience—especially when all you own is a bicycle. An essay about modern life, hidden assumptions, and the invisible cost of starting over.
Digital Life
Modern life is less about living than remembering passwords, collecting receipts, and proving to machines that we are who they already know we are. A humorous essay about the quiet absurdities of the digital age.
Interview
After decades away from the spotlight, Norwegian cult rock band Sister Rain is back with an ambitious triple album. We spent a day with frontman Aslak Nygren to talk about music, friendship, craftsmanship, and why some bands never really disappear.
ADHD
Laundry only takes five minutes. Unless your brain insists on turning it into fifty tiny tasks first. A humorous personal essay about ADHD, everyday life, and the invisible distance between intention and action.
Everyday Life
Some people chase beautiful views. Others simply need a window. An essay about trains, hotels, airplanes, and the strangely comforting act of watching the world pass by.
Relationships
Long before sexuality, there is touch. The need to be held, comforted and reassured follows us throughout our lives, even as modern society teaches us to keep our distance. An essay about intimacy, trust and one of humanity's oldest languages.
Loneliness
We have hundreds of online connections, yet many of us don't know who to call when the washing machine breaks down or a wardrobe needs carrying downstairs. Perhaps modern loneliness isn't about being alone—it's about lacking a safety net.
Technology
Buying a light bulb used to require a shop and a few coins. Today it may require cookies, newsletters, analytics consent and yet another password. Somewhere along the way, shopping became an exercise in digital identity.
Relationships
"We should grab a coffee sometime" may be the most common polite fiction in the Norwegian language. We promise future conversations with complete sincerity—right up until nobody ever suggests a date.
Everyday Life
I've always been one of the people who stay after the party is over. Not because I'm the most social, but because the quiet moments at the end often reveal more about people than the party itself ever could.
Technology
We generate more data than ever before, yet spend countless hours trying to make our systems understand one another. The problem isn't a lack of information. It's that every system still speaks its own language.