Sketches from the Life of a Wandering Swede

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My book in progress is going to deal with momentous events and periods in my life.

Prologue – A look back in history

Chapter 1 (Part 1) — My Childhood and Grandpa Oscar

Chapter 1 (Part 2) —  Mamma and Pappa, Gun and me

Chapter 1 (Part 3 ) — The Paradise of my Childhood

Chapter 2 – Malmö and Copenhagen – A Tale of Two Cities

Chapter 3 (Part 1) – Lapland and Lofoten, Norway

Chapter 3 (Part 2) – Abisko and Kungsleden

Chapter 3 (Part 3) – Reindeer branding

Chapter 3  (Part 4) – Climbing Kebnekajse

Chapter 3  (Part 5) – Lapland, three years later

Chapter 4 – My youth and the theater

Chapter 5 (Part 1) – Piece in major and minor

Chapter 5 (Part 2) – Piece in major and minor: Luxeuil

Chapter 5 (Part 3) — One year after

Chapter 6  (Part 1) – Studies and World War II

Chapter 6  (Part 2) – Studies at Lund University

Chapter 7 – England, Cambridge

Chapter 8 – England, London

Chapter 9 – Lund – a Love story

Chapter 10 – Stockholm theater

Chapter 11 – Marriage and teaching

Chapter 12 – An Interlude in Dreamland

Chapter  13 – My wonderful new family

Chapter 14 – The Americanization of Siv

Chapter 15 (Part 1) – My new country

Chapter 15 (Part 2) — Vietnam war and peace movements

Chapter 15 (Part 3) — Summer camps and sailing

Chapter 15 (Part 4) – My political awakening

Chapter16 – New York, New York

Chapter 17  – New York City Theater

Chapter 18 (Part 1) – Mamaroneck High School and Friends

Chapter 18 (Part 2) – Mamaroneck High School and Theater

Chapter 19 – Paris is worth a mass

Chapter 20– My fourth life begins

Chapter 21 (Part 1) — Travels with John in the summer of ’71

Chapter 21 (Part 2) –– Bergslagen and Löa 13 years later

Chapter 22 (Part 1) — New Rochelle and Friends

Chapter 22 (Part 2)  – An active year with John in New Rochelle

Chapter 22 (Part 3)  – More activities in New Rochelle

Chapter 23 – Back to Paris

Chapter 24 (Part 1) -– Arne and Drottningholm Theater

Chapter 24 (Part 2) –– Stockholm and some history

Chapter 25 – Ecole Centrale and great friends in Paris

Chapter 26 (Part 1): La Fontaine – our ‘fermette’

Chapter 26 (Part 2):  La Fontaine — Drought and Flood

Chapter 27 –– Travels with family in 1974

Chapter 28 (Part 1):  Thirteen years in Paris — Arne and Helsinki

Chapter 28 (Part 2): Thirteen years in Paris — Theater and Music

Chapter 29 – The big visit to Scandinavia

Chapter 30  (Part 1): Travels from Paris — London

Chapter 30 (Part 2): Travels from Paris — Berlin and more

Chapter 31 – Our Swedish girls – and other memories

Chapter 32 – Travels around the USA in 1979

Chapter 33 (Part 1)  — We Move to Lyon — linguistics and teaching

Chapter 33 (Part 2)  –– Lyon family, friends and animals

Chapter 34 — More about Lyon

Chapter 35 – Visiting Argentina

Chapter 36 (Part 1) — Adventures in the Austrian Alps

Chapter 36 (Part 2) — Some very special Aopine flowers

Chapter 36  (Part 3)– Mannheimer Hütte and Schesaplana

 Chapter 36 (Part 4) – Gemslücke and Geisspitze

Chapter 36 (Part 5) ––  Flowers in the Austrian Alp

Chapter 37 (Part 1) — Ireland and Bloomsday

Chapter 37 (Part 2) — Lapland Revisited

Chapter 38 — Sweden, Jews and Nazi Germany

Chapter 39 — Magda Molin — theater photos

Chapter 40  (Part 1) —– India: Varanasi

Chapter 40 (Part 2) –– Incredible India

Chapter 40 (Part 3) — Further travels in India and Nepal

Chapter 41 — Exotic Countries

Chapter 42 (Part 1) : Photo Safari through Tanzania

Chapter 42 (Part 2) — Serengeti

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