Connective Visions

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

Janteloven might be the fly in the soup of contemporary notions of deserving.

There is no holiday from the headache of running into ignorance.

A trip to a Scandinavian supermarket is a riveting attraction for the touring American.

The first geocache hunt in Kristiansand, Norway, lands the seeker in church.

It’s a little like messages in bottles, or cards on balloons, granting a peek into a fellow human in a world that still has room for exploration.

It’s not just vacation – it’s getting out of the country.

In 1988, I made a trip to Europe to visit friends, investigate colleges, and simply travel and see the sights. I picked up my application to the University of Sussex, and after a bit of wandering about England, I went over to The Netherlands and down

A downside to freelancing (“self-employment” in the happy words of government agencies) is that the celebrated U.S. tax refund is slightly rarer than a UFO sighting: the independent contractor almost always owes money. So I emerged yesterday after a