About me

I live in a cabin by a frozen lake, where the sun is gone for most of the winter and the days are a long blue dusk. I was a newspaper sub-editor for years, and when the paper closed I kept writing, because I had a habit of one piece a week and no wish to break it. The column moved from the page to an email.

I write about what is in front of me: the light, the wood stove, the sauna on Wednesday, a candle in the window and the small routines that get a person to spring. The column is short, around six hundred words, and it comes every Monday morning before the coffee has cooled.

I am not a famous columnist. What I sell is what I have learned in twenty years of writing to a deadline: the columns collected as ebooks, a reading list for the dark months, a pack of templates for planning your own column, and two video courses on writing one.