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It's a bright Monday morning here in Helsinki, a time for brunch and other pleasant weekend rituals. And what is brunch, I ask you,...

It’s a bright and beautiful morning here in Konala, Helsinki. It’s a time for wholesome thoughts, and my thought for today is about the...

It’s a bright and peaceful Sunday morning here in Helsinki. It’s a time for a quiet coffee, a reflective stroll, and a pleasant,...

It’s nearly midnight on a Saturday night here in Helsinki. I don't have a social life, so here I am writing. It’s that magical hour when...

For many, palm oil is the ultimate villain of the food world. It is the shadowy, destructive force responsible for wiping out rainforests...

Staring out at the water, gets a person thinking about the strange and ancient things that live down there in the murky depths....

My thoughts, as they often do, turn to the practicalities of human survival. Specifically, I’m thinking about the warm, cozy jumpers and...

It's late on a Saturday night here in Helsinki. The sensible people have gone to bed, and the fun people are out being social. I,...

Finland, as a nation, has a profound relationship with water; it is a country of nearly 188,000 lakes, a place where water is a constant,...

Sometimes your mind wanders. Maybe you think about your celebrity crush . Maybe you think about the ending of the not at all...

I have no social life to speak of, and my mind wanders to the big stuff. And tonight, I’m thinking about what might be the most...

My latest obsession has been the wild and contradictory world of online nutrition advice. It’s a chaotic place. In one corner of the...

I’m deep in the digital trenches of the online fitness and nutrition world today, a place where people argue with a level of religious...

It's late on a Saturday night here in Helsinki. The city is quiet, and the sky, even at this hour, still holds a faint, ghostly light....

It’s a late Saturday night here in Helsinki, that quiet, contemplative hour when the city is bathed in the strange, ethereal twilight of...

I have come to believe that there is no question more profound, more persistent, and more deeply ingrained in our cultural psyche than...

It's about 10 PM on a Saturday night here in Helsinki. 🌃 Some people are out there drinking, some people are healing from hearthbreak,...

It’s 10PM on a Saturday night here in Konala, Helsinki. A time when, I am told, people with flourishing social lives are often out,...

It is 10:07 PM on a Saturday night here in Helsinki. 🌙 This is an hour when, I am told, normal people with well-adjusted lives are out...

It's Saturday evening here in Helsinki, a time when many people are relaxing after a long week. Not me. I cannot stop, because if I...