Collecting My Thoughts

"Should Finland join NATO, the United States, under Article 5 of the NATO treaty, would be obligated to go to war with the world’s larg...

Note to a friend in Finland, which was at one time part of the Russian empire. "I do hope no one in Finland is counting on Biden to sa...

I don't understand how governments that resign work. They should just use the adversarial system like ours where one party spends all th...

“Progressives have a longstanding love affair with the nations of northern Europe, which are, or in some cases were until the day before yes...

Three years ago in Finland It seems like ages, but it was July 2006 and we were visiting our friends in Helsinki. I was desperate for someth...

3593 Dinner Party Plans Today we're having two couples over for dinner and photos of my husband's trip to Haiti , Sharon and Eric an...

2707 Trip Tale: Reading in the woods One course of action when you are up early in a log cottage in the pine and birch forest by a pristin...

2682 Trip Tale: Our hosts Twenty five years ago we promised Martti and Riitta that we would visit them in 1985 for our 25th wedding anniv...

2679 We're here in Finland We arrived about noon Sunday. I didn't sleep on the plane so I'm about to crash. We are enjoying...

2644 Also reading at the Lake, Suomalaisia Kuvia a book we received from Martti and Riitta (he's an architect and she's a veterina...