Moving Day

After months of anticipation and a car packed to the breaking point, we arrived at our new home to find that ... Not everything was as we...

Moving day

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Waiting (and waiting) for summer

It's the last week of February. In other places, that means the first glimpses of spring. Not here, not in Finland. I have lived here...

On goodbyes

Remembering my mother at Christmas.

The flash that was summer

It started with the ants, and it ended with the swallows. The first time I remember looking at the garden and thinking, "Now it must be...

Coming home again & acquisitions

I haven't been at Bastubacka for a long time, some four weeks. That is the longest absence since we acquired the place last summer. It's...

I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you

I used to love watching Mister Roger's Neighborhood on TV as a kid. Sesame Street and The Electric Company were the hipper versions of...

The Accidental Christmas

If there is one thing we have learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, it's that we are not in charge. Well, we have learned a lot of things....

Buzzing with local wildlife

It's been a whole new intro to flora and fauna. I grew up in the countryside, but that was in a completely different environment, a...

I'm the banker's wife. I don't speak very good Swedish.