After two false starts, spring appears to have arrived for good in Southern Finland. I saw anxious articles in the news about the plight of migratory birds that returned too…
Meri, Meri, quite contreri
Category: Personal & Family Life
I may be finally giving up on my productivity ideals, after four years of living with the time hoovers that are children. It’s just not working – the weekly review…
At the bank, you can’t use Todoist or Notion, the two cornerstones of my current productivity tech stack. Especially Notion has been a blow, so I briefly considered how feasible…
Time has vanished. It used to be that I had pockets of time that I could use for life admin, personal pursuits and other things like that which now are…
So far, I have the following down- and upsides to report. NB. This list doesn’t include the main upside: affordability of rent and childcare! Top 3 life improvements since moving…
Grr. The last couple of weeks have been ‘frustrating’. People say frustrating when they are casting around for a synonym for ‘shit’ that sounds like you’re being mature about it…
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…
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…