Peace, Please

My colleague called it doomscolling. I knew straight away what she meant. It’s the thing that we both, along with a large portion of other Finns, have been doing incessantly for the past two weeks. While I sit here comfortably in my warm home, somewhere out there, there is a 6-year-old girl crying for her […]

How the World Lost Its Taste Buds

I kept burning my toast when I was sick. I was astonished at how I’d never before registered needing my sense of smell for anything in particular. Now, I was acutely aware of it in everything I did. Apparently, a functioning nose could be very useful for not burning toast! Or other items. On the […]