Line Heggelund

Let's be honest: 2025 has been a dumpster fire. I lost my mother. We had the kind of closeness that doesn't need words. And then she was gone. A few weeks ago, I lost my horse. If you don't have horses, you probably don't get it. But anyone who does knows: they're not pets. They're mirrors. Therapists. Truth-tellers. Losing him was like losing a piece of my sanity. So yeah. 2025 can go straight to hell. I Became a Hermit Who Writes When things get dark, people tell you to "reach out" and...

Why Your Greatest Superpower Wasn't on the School Curriculum Remember that sick feeling in your stomach when you brought home a F on a test? The shame spiral when you didn't make the team? The crushing weight of disappointing your parents, your teachers, yourself? Yeah. That's not education. That's programming. And it's time we talked about what it cost us. School Taught Us Failure Was the Enemy Here's what they taught us: Get it right. Color inside the lines. Don't raise your hand unless...

The Triple Outsider Advantage Let me tell you what it's like to be a Gen X woman living on a farm outside Tønsberg, Norway, watching the world lose its fucking mind. Outsider from culture. Outsider from generation. Outsider from visibility: I'm Norwegian (literally on the edge of Europe). I'm Gen X (sandwiched between generations that actually get attention) and I'm a 57-year-old woman (which means I've aged out of relevance entirely). But here's what nobody tells you about being invisible...