I doubt there’s a question a child learns to hate more, which is why I make a point of never asking it. Nothing stomps on your dreams and brings on any insecurities faster than a well-meaning adult trying to guide you as you navigate those early aspirations. I want to be a doctor – that’sContinueContinue reading “What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?”
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2026 Goals
This evening I was reviewing the 2025 stats for The Story Cellar. Just saying that makes me feel like I should be chewing a pen while wearing a green visor and punching in numbers on an old calculator. The Story Cellar opened in July and from then until December was open 12 times. Within thoseContinueContinue reading “2026 Goals”
And (almost) 500 more
It’s been a few months since I posted that The Story Cellar now had five hundred titles on its shelves. I haven’t quite doubled it yet, but we have rounded the eight hundred mark! And I think that’s worth celebrating. I started The Story Cellar six months ago with just under two hundred titles. AndContinueContinue reading “And (almost) 500 more”
When Cheap Means Cherished
The last time The Story Cellar was opened, two wonderful woman came in to donate books. Last Sunday, I loaded boxes and bags into my car, brought my mother along to help carry, and we drove out to a small village where another wonderful woman was donating all the English books that her and husbandContinueContinue reading “When Cheap Means Cherished”
It Begins
When my son was little, he and I made a pact every year to not do anything even remotely related to Christmas until 1 November. No matter how tempted we were when all the Christmas biscuits started appearing in the shops around the middle of October, and no matter how much I wanted to diveContinueContinue reading “It Begins”
I Would Walk 500 Miles
Or I would read 500 titles … which you can now at The Story Cellar. I feel very moved by how much it has grown in just two months – and this is two months with two opening days a month. When I started I had three bookshelves. Then new books started pouring in. InContinueContinue reading “I Would Walk 500 Miles”
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
The Story Cellar made the papers! Yes, papers as in plural. Imagine my delight when I opened my postbox on Thursday to find my picture on the front page of the local paper, Øboen. The day before, I had made the online version of the county paper, Fyns Amts Avis. You know you’re living inContinueContinue reading “Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
Opening Day
I did it. I actually did it. After secretly dreaming of it for so many years, I finally opened a bookshop. Even though it’s only every other Saturday, even though I still have a day job, even though I only sold five books to four groups of customers, it’s a success in my eyes. BecauseContinueContinue reading “Opening Day”
The Trousers of Time
Do you ever get the feeling that your life is re-writing itself around you? That somewhere out there, things are re-shaping themselves, like you’re clay on a potter’s wheel? Change is slowly creeping up on you, you can’t see it but you can feel it. There’s excitement in the air. That’s me at the moment.ContinueContinue reading “The Trousers of Time”
A Tuscan Bookshop
You know the feeling you get when you open a book and, right from the first sentence, it draws you in? From those first few words, you know you are going to love it and read it again and again, because it feels like you’ve come home. Every little girl is unhappy in her ownContinueContinue reading “A Tuscan Bookshop”