I'm a Taurus. I don't really believe in astrology, but according to what all those books on the subject agree on about Tauruses is that it takes a lot to make us loose our temper.
But you better not tap dance on our toes too long, because when we do get angry even the strongest and biggest keep out of our way. Those outbursts comes once or twice a year, hit everyone and everything in the neighborhood like a roaring but non-violent thunder storm and disappears as quickly as it came.

An important quality to me is humour. I love the British "dry" humour. A good laughter makes you feel better! I do enjoy to have a "bitchy" conversation with someone who is equally amused, but I'm never mean - not on purpose any way.

The ability to show feelings and emotions is also quite important. I'm told to be very diplomatic, and I'm proud about that. But being diplomatic does not mean that you don't show what you feel - being a diplomat just means that you are able to turn down the heat of the conversation a bit.
I am curious of life...There is so much to experience, to see, to learn. When I go abroad I almost always travel alone. That's the way I like it. It's easier to get to know people if you're not a crowd. And if you get to know people, the probability of getting a unique experience of some kind is so much bigger.
Every person has a story to tell. I like to listen to those stories. It might not be the most exciting story you ever have heard, but it's always interesting in one way or the other. Experiences, things they've done, people they've met, places they've been, thoughts they have...
I'm loyal to my friends. They know they can trust me. If I'm told something in confidence, that's the way it stays. No compromise! So I trust my friends, and do that until the opposite is shown. Fortunately it's happened very rarely that I'm let down.
And, I almost forgot, Tauruses are told to be very good lovers...



My INTERESTS are quite common.
I like to READ a book now and then, and I'm especially fond of thrillers by authors like Jonathan Kellerman, fantasy like The Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan or fiction with a historical background like James A Michener or James Clavell.

It's not a coincident that I've chosen this background. You see, MUSIC has a big place in my heart!
I studied music at the music program at gymnasium (almost like high school). I sang, played piano, fluite.
Long time ago, about 200 years or so, I played the violin.
I did that for many years. It's quite amazing how many different kinds of music can be played on that instrument! Classic music, of course, but jazz, folk music, gospel, pop...I played in different orchestras and one of the highlights as concerto master in a students orchestra was when we played a piece I've composed myself.

Now adays I'm satisfied by just listening to music of (almost) any kind.
My life sort of turned completely around in many ways in the end of the 70th: I moved to my first appartement, I started going to clubs, I started to work after having finished educations and military service, I came out. This means that music from that time brings back nice, exciting and funny memories.
Remember the Village People, Anita Ward, Gloria Gaynor?....
I like artists like Celine Dion, Patti LaBelle, ABBA, Kenny G. Big favorites is the Turkish singers Tarkan and Sertab.
One guy, not especially well known in Sweden is Sam Harris. Not only is he tremendously good looking - has that guy got a voice or not?..
Check him out! Just click on this link!.
Symphonic rock music, like Mike Batt and Alan Parsons Project are other favorites
Being quite often in Morocco, I also listen to arab pop music, including Rai music.

My mother and I have tickets to the Opera House in Stockholm, which gives us the opportunity to go there 5-6 times a year to hear and see an opera or a ballet.

I love to see a live show. Not for enjoying the music in a quality way, but to see great performers live. I've seen/experienced Enrique Iglesias, Cher, Celine Dion, Diana Ross, Tina Turner.... It was really great to see their shows and to hear them live after having listened to their hits on the radio, CDs and MTV! The best consert ever so far is when Patti LaBelle visited Stockholm many years ago. Everything else but her and her music disappeared from the first note and didn't come back until the show was well finished.

I spend some time withFRIENDS and I love to TRAVEL. To find out more about my travels, you're welcome to some other pages: One about some of my journeys in general and a couple of pages about Agadir in Morocco.

I think it's quite important to keep informed about what's happening in our world. I think you have an obligation to live in the big world, not only your own much much smaller. Wars in former Russia, the discussion about the status of Jerusalem, the AIDS tragedy in Africa, the sometimes shaky economy of Japan and the Far East - all that happens on this one and only globe has an effect on you and me. I try to keep up to what's going on by reading two newspapers and watching the daily news.
When going to another country I think it's common courtesy to have read something about that country; some information regarding culture, habits, population, religion...If nothing else, it makes the journey so much more interesting.
I have the opinion that if you have something you really feel for and are interested in, you should try to do something about it. It might be anything, from environmental issues to stamp collecting. Join a club, an organisation or an association! I'm engaged in POLITICS. I don't just want to complain about taxes and heavy city traffic and pollution and all other kinds of things. It's the easy way - having a lot to say but not doing anything about it. But after a while no one takes you seriously - lots of talk and no action. People who has a lot of opinions in different issues but don't do anything about it what so ever don't have my respect. The only way to get a change is to get involved.
Because of that I'm member of the CONSERVATIVE PARTY. That's the political party that comes closest to my values and what I stand for. But have in mind that the Conservative Party in Sweden is not the same thing as conservative parties in other countries.
I'm Vice President of the board of the local organisation, and I'm also elected member for my party of the parish council as well as vestryman.
Even though the election in 2002 was a disaster for the Conservative Party and the numbers of representatives was heavily cut, I was given some more tasks.
I am elected conservative politician for the Environmental and Health Protection Board of the City of Stockholm, and I have a seat in a District Court as juror.

For natural reasons I'm engaged in Gay issues. Gay rights (and obligations), acceptance by my party as well as the rest of the society, laws against discrimination and violance...
There are several things that can be better. It takes time to get a change, but slowly things are getting better.
In the Convention 2000 for the Stockholm Conservative Party, I managed to get acceptance for a petition I wrote regarding homosexual people. We are now officially welcome into the party and the party is going to act against abuse of different kinds of homosexuals.
Perhaps a small step for the gay movement, but a rather big for the Conservative Party...
It was a rather big step for me to "come out" in front of all the delegates at the convention. But yet I have the feeling that it's necessary for me to do that. There were no one "out" before - even though there of course are several gay people in the Conservative Party. Someone had to come out and start the discussion in the open. And I will continue to front gay issues and be a "gay face" within the party as long as it takes and is necessary.
In 1999 I was not allowed to wear an official campaign jacket at Stockholm Pride, the big (happy) event that takes place every summer. The summer 2003 was the third and last summer I was responsible for the Conservative Party participation in Pride Park with our "party tent". As the first time, I was responsible but this time I was heavy backed up by the party, both in Stockholm but also nationwide. 20 politicians from the party participated during the week, including 6 members of the parliament and two of the highest ranked politicians here in Stockholm. Our party leader-to-be Fredrik Reinfeldt gave the opening speach and also spent a lot of time in our tent...Something has happened! If you want to see some pictures from this event (year 2001) you can click here. That page is in Swedish.

I like to WRITE. When I was younger I wrote short stories. Some of them were published which made me tremendously proud. Now adays I don't write that kind of stuff any longer, not much anyway.
If you want to read some of the stuff I've written, you're welcome to my Special Home Page. Please keep in mind that all the small stories are in Swedish.
I'm given the opportunity to write as editor-in-chief of a quarterly magazine for the housing association. The approximately 20-30 pages magazine is about actual things in the neighborhood, history of the island, have "guest writers" and artists like painters, authors and photographers contribute. The vicar has his column, I some times make a cross word....This also gives me a chance of doing some lay out work and being a photographer. The magazine is distributed to about 450 appartements.


I guess I should have gotten tired of the computer by now, but I haven't. There are so many things you can do, and new things are added all the time. When I bought my first computer (a Macintosh, of course...) back in 1995 or so, my intention was using it as a very potent type writer. I could write stuff, archive stuff, register stuff. If someone would have told me about all the things I do nowadays with the computer, I most likely would have thought that person to be slightly crazy.

And I'm not thinking about chatting on the Internet! Not just that, anyway...But to be honest - yes, I find it tremendously funny meeting friends all over the world on the Net. Just imagine that I'm sitting in Stockholm, Sweden chatting with a friend on the other side of the Globe! That's HUGE!

One is forced on you by one reason or another. You really don't want to be alone, it's scary and boring and you more or less constantly look for someone to share your life with.
The other loneliness is chosen by free will. True, you live alone, but you don't feel lonely. In fact you think it's quite nice to have the apartement for yourself and sleep alone most of the times. If you want to have someone beside you, you have good friends with whom you can share the bed or the possability to meet someone just for the occasion. This second kind of loneliness is the one I feel.
Well, yes I do enjoy both relationsships and sex. I enjoy steamy hot sex very much, as well as I am a hopeless romantic...
Believe it or not, but I'm tremendously shy. When it comes to match making - no problems! But when I fall in love with someone, I don't know what to do, how to act, what to say...It's like being 16 years old again and falling in love for the first time.

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