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Pirate Beach, and Other Foibles of the Expat Life
This is Helsinki, but it's not real life...When I went to live in France as a student in 1996, I had the choice of living on the International floor in the dorms, living with a host family, or living...
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Wordless Wednesday – Lily in Porvoo!
Lily taking in a statue in Porvoo, Finland Check out today’s other Wordless Wednesday submissions too!
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Day Trips from Helsinki – Porvoo
Waterfront with Porvoo Cathedral in the background Heading east from Helsinki on the King’s Road (Kuninkaantie), you can reach the charming river-side town of Porvoo in under an hour. From May to...
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There’s More to Lapland than Santa’s Village!
A sunrise fit for Santa himself! One of the unexpected joys of living in Finland (and there are many) is Santa mania. According to This is Finland, Finns have been claiming that Santa lives in Finland...
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You cant step in the same river twice
The kids' first Metro ride in Helsinki (October 2010). Some people spend a lifetime trying to see what my kids have seen in the past 16 months. One of the many things for which I am thankful. The Greek...
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A Cold Dip in the Sea
A double rainbow from our recent trip to Florida. I know it’s only week two of 2014, but I’ve already got a sunshine and rainbows sort of feeling about this year. It’s probably because, after a solid...
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After Hiraeth
When The Displaced Nation shared this word from This Page is About Words today, it resonated. Like kummerspeck (grief bacon), it’s a word that should exist in the English language, or at least in the...
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My Finland Bucket List
We tend to move about every three years, so when we celebrated three years of life in Finland this fall, I inevitably started to feel the itch. If you’re an expat, you know what I’m talking about. I...
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A Morning with Tove Jansson
Visit the Tove Jansson exhibit from now through 7 September at the Ateneum Museum in Helsinki. As much as I may dream of spending a morning with beloved Finnish author and painter Tove Jansson in the...
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A Foodie’s Dream Day Out
The raw ingredients for our Emo Cooking Class One of my favorite traditions in our expat community is the PTO’s Cooking Club. About once a month, someone invites a group of ladies over to their house...
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Day Trips from Helsinki – Mustion Linna
Mustion Linna is a great day-trip from HelsinkiTaking advantage of the nice days and the new car, we headed west of Helsinki for a trip down the King’s Road to Mustion Linna. This eighteenth-century...
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Overcoming Inertia
Because lack of a pretty pictures is NOT a good reason to stop blogging for five months ;) Inertia is a part of my writer-life. No matter how hard I try to banish it forever, I know it is lurking just...
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Where do stories come from?
In 2010, my husband, two preschool-aged kids, and I packed up our house and our geriatric cat and moved from Colorado to Helsinki, Finland. Not long after we arrived, a colleague of my husband’s...
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