We started calling it “Spanish hair.” Ever since we’d arrived, my son’s hair had grown big and tall, pointing this way and that. It was unapologetic. It was hair with an exclamation point at each side. The first breakfast after our return home, I noted its conversion back into “Finnish hair”: smooth, subtle, fluid. The […]
Carefree beach days, planning my tan lines and next snack. No thoughts for carbon emissions or the climate warming 7°C during the lifetime of my future grandkids. If there were worries, they were about the wrong things. Applying anti-aging cream at 25. Pointless! Who has wrinkles at 25?!? Collecting frequent flyer points. Also quite pointless […]
The Snow Melts Somewhere 