Walk with Us

On top of this easy-to-make, fresh pie you can use any berries available, slices of sour apples or even diced rhubarb and strawberries....

Time to test one aspect of the concept of slow travelling: your immediate environment may offer as great hiking possibilities as the most...

The personal may be highly political. This concept was again confirmed as I read the book Treatment of Shame by Finnish psychotherapist...

The idea that our modern Western social order is inexorably the goal of social evolution should be dismissed. In the book The Dawn of...

Around 40 years after the Second World War, journalist-writer, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of women who served...

Kazuo Ishiguro's plaintive novel A Pale View of Hills is marked by clarity and mystery at the same time. The main character Etsuko, who...

To my delight, the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE launched in the spring of 2023 a campaign called A Million Garbage Bags to encourage...

The film Tove tells the story of Finnish artist Tove Jansson, her search for her true artistic path, and her search for love. The milieu...

Waking up in the middle of the night does not make me nervous any more, because after midnight, there is always a new Wordle word game to...

Aino Sibelius, the wife of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, was not a muse but an active figure in the creative work of her...

Are all our reactions online really necessary: thumb-ups and emojis, comments on posts or on the comments of others? Or could we just...

Even though there is a horrifying stream of images of war flooding from Ukraine, I decided to watch again the historical war film Ran by...

I got email from the New York State Communist Party. How on earth did this unknown party, from a distant continent, find my personal...

Would you like to have thousands of noisy tourists messing around in your neighbourhood, making prices go up and possibly damaging unique...

The charming town of Poznań in western Poland is a great weekend destination. The medieval market square in Poznań city centre is the...

This delicious cheesecake is surprisingly quick to make. It will also disappear quickly! Cheesecake with chocolate chips 6 - 8 servings...

As expected, I felt a sting in my conscience as I booked flights to London. Do we have a right to enjoy life when there is war in Europe?...

The living environment of my dreams is pleasant, functional, safe, and clean. My present neighbourhood has, in fact, lots of these good...

Just by embracing the thought written in the title anyone can start a process of personal change, if we are to believe certain self help...

The war in Ukraine gives a frightening opportunity to examine the power of words. Words create the world. Are we talking about a...