As of midnight on New Year's Eve, I only had one spoken-aloud resolution. "I want to take the time to sit and eat breakfast each morning before checking my email." It was a noble, if somewhat unambitious, goal. I've noticed that my heart races and I can't calm my mind…
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Our Christmas Card
Christmas cards and Christmas letters, chronicles of our year at a time of supreme reflection, appear to be a very American phenomenon. It's one I like. I have a box of cards collected over the years from my friends, and in the pictures I can see them fall in love.…
Snow!
A predictable post, I suppose, considering that I'm a California girl at the commencement of her first winter in Norway. For California kids, certain Christmas songs and lore carry a different kind of mystique. Not only Irving Berlin's White Christmas , but also Jingle Bells , Winter Wonderland , and Frosty the Snowman…
What I love about Halloweentime
On September 22, Jonathan and I joined the rest of Oslo in celebrating the Autumnal Equinox. We followed the crowds down to the Akerselva River walk in Grünerløkka, and snapped photos all along the way . Night lowered itself over the city, flooding the winding river canal with shadows. Colorful light…
The Stuff of my Life
Our last perfect weather day was last Thursday. I took the bus to Lysaker to drop something at Jonathan's office and afterward I took a walk. The water gulped against the wood and stone side of the pier below me. I was thirty feet up on a flat, grassy space…
Høst: Min Favorittårstid
This is my first fall in Oslo. I have no idea what to expect. When I arrived here in mid-April I was treated to a beautiful spring, lots of daylight, lots of yellow flowers, signs in every window reading God Påske! (Happy Easter!). I was prepared for chilly wind and…
Running. A goal.
Today I went out to watch other people run the Oslo Marathon . It's a big event. In 2010 it attracted 16,000 runners, more than half of them women. People came from all over the world. It's a beautiful course, winding along the edge of the Oslofjord and then up…
Oslomarka
Karl Johans Gate runs straight downhill from the gates of Oslo's royal palace to the parliamentary buildings (Stortinget), and continues down to the city's main train station (Oslo Sentralstasjon). From the palace hill one can see the tops of buildings and trees, red flags, neon signs, streetlamps. But beyond all…