skip to the loo, already

It’s a thing we want to know about when we travel: the toilets. Tell us about the facilities. We’ll be visiting several times a day, and we don’t want to make embarrassing mistakes.
The Finnish bathroom is entirely familiar, only better in some respects. The toilet fixture itself is likely to be low-flow, but not [...]

skimming the surface

So, Finland, for those of you who asked. And may my in-laws forgive me my facile impressions.
Calm, polite, reserved Finns. These are the people we shared airplane space with going over. It was a later afternoon flight from JFK, and everybody knew it would be tomorrow morning by the time we landed and we’d [...]

detox and retox

It’s a cantaloupe. In case you were wondering.
Back from Finland and I’m wishing we weren’t. This country is crazy. More than ever before in my life I avert my gaze and shut down when people start talking politics. I absolutely don’t want to hear that people I otherwise think well of are rabidly opposed [...]