Randal Piersons:  

I immensely enjoy picture taking since it enables me to be out there and see all these beautiful and marvellous things nature has created. Would you like to see some of my pictures? Go to the world wide web and write photographicmoments.se There, you can even contact me by clicking on my name in upper right hand corner. What would I like to do in the future? Perhaps try to establish a business selling pictures of nature. I have had an exhibition that went well. After more than 30 years of living Swedish, I have many quirks in my English. If something puzzels you, it's probably just that I mixed up a Swedish word with an English one. I can't always find the most proper or even at times correct word to use. When visiting the US, people can say that I speak very good English (for being a foreigner). I'm not a paying member. Contact: randal dot piersons at gmail dot se So what's happened with me since moving to Sweden? I moved as an idealist and am still inclined be so. For instance, I feel that parents should have equal time with kids, each working half time, dividing economy equally etc. etc. That didn't pan out well for me in practice though. I was full-time house husband around 15 years. Educated as social-psychologist, I got my first real work in Sweden at the age of 44 as a technician – life is not logical. I am retired but was employed as a Calibration Engineer in a pharmaceutical company. I was also an acting Safety Engineer (when I had the time). I have 2 favourite pastimes: 1. Being outdoors and experiencing areas that are not commercially exploited. In the Fall, this entails mushroom hunting. Sweden, is a good place for mushrooms. The weather is not too warm and there is plenty of rain - much as, for example, in Washington/Oregon. First I learned mushrooms to pick them for eating, but then we got radioactive fallout from Chernobyl (mostly Cesium 137) and now I mostly appreciate them for environmental beauty and just plain hunting them to hunt them. 2. Being active politically as a "Green", I am presently chairman / president of Salem county's (pop. 15,000) division of the Green Party of Sweden and am elected to / partake in councils of differe...Expand for more