Connective Visions

The Norwegian butter crisis provides both a relief and a nuisance in the holiday season.

Small-town news from Norway provides summer relief from the usual media.

As an Independence Day gift to Norwegian friends, the author suggests they – and other nations – review their U.S. bond portfolios.

A brief revisiting of Valentine’s Day that first appeared via Facebook.

Shifting the holiday focus from sales to relationships can provide both social and economic benefits.

The twilight time of Halloween/All Saints’ corresponds all too well with the 2010 U.S. elections.

The Easter weekend in Norway is a national holiday, running from Thursday through Monday, over which time even supermarkets close. It came to an end yesterday evening, so the traffic warnings had hit the news headlines Sunday night. Adult citizens

This may prove more of a testimony than a standard blog entry. Ah well. There is time. Thursday, I told a close friend in Norway that I was going to be one of seven preachers delivering sermons on the Seven Last Words of Christ from the cross in o