I’ve been thinking about the Finnish culture of coping. Is it a thing? It feels like something that defines a whole national characteristic, but whenever I think of something like…
Meri, Meri, quite contreri
Month: November 2023
Another cliché I’ve been contemplating lately, apart from ‘the past is a foreign country’, is ‘wherever you go, there you are’. Mainly in the context that our children make life…
My older son has always been fond of disaster scenarios, and if anything, this has increased since the move to Finland. Perhaps he sensed something we didn’t know about how…
The past is a foreign country, they say, but in my case the past is also my own country, which means that my own country is a foreign country. And…