International

Wow it is beautiful here. The summer sun barely dips below the horizon and then it’s back again, and the quality of the light is surreal, like something from a movie. Well, either that or I am dead and this is the lighting of the afterlife. Rule nothing out after…

Get comfortable and enjoy the story of how I almost was unable to get on my flight to Helsinki because of a rookie mistake. In this story, I am both the protagonist and the rookie and also maybe the villain. Hey. Remember how I was all packed and ready like…

Is it possible to lose feeling in your lungs? When I think back to my halcyon days of just yesterday when I was in Los Angeles and it was almost 80 degrees and I literally complained about summer coming too soon because my style is better suited to layers of winter clothing,…

We arrived late and stayed up a bit late getting cleaned up and settled and drinking wine and congratulating ourselves on picking such a beautiful Airbnb apartment and then fell into a deep sleep like bears for the winter. Hi Stockholm, we are hibernating. Today we woke up so late that…

Every morning for the past few weeks I wake up and check my phone for the weather in Stockholm. We leave in a few days and sometimes, if I catch the iPhone weather just right, a snowflake appears in the 7-day forecast. The idea of seeing snowflakes in Sweden has…

As we were waiting in the conference room for our meeting to start, someone caught me on my phone checking out the weather in Stockholm. “When is your trip again?” he asked. “I leave in a couple of weeks,” I said. “How long are going for?” he asked. People around the…