If you had a genie in a bottle with just three wishes, what would you do with it? Most of us would first wish for money, and why? So you can buy a better car, bigger house, the most trendy brand name clothes or shoes. While you are acquiring all these t ...
Where have we been?
If there is anything that life has taught me, it is that it constantly changes. The moment you lay back and get comfortable, life has a way of shaking things up. There are a few ways to look at change, and I suppose it depends on how you deal with it. Do ...
Swedish Pancakes – Flippin Around
It's been a few weeks since we last posted about our first attempt at a Swedish dish....."Saturday Morning Pancakes, Swedish Style" or so I thought. Since then we have received some valuable and much appreciated feedback on improvements to be made. Has ...
Navigating Malmö Part 2 – Finding Malmö
Two sunny days in a row...? In winter, in Sweden? No way. We woke up bright and early, same as yesterday, but this time our objective for the day was to make our way into Malmö Central and explore our surroundings further. Prior to leaving the house we ju ...
Navigating Malmö Part 1 – The trek for SEK
It was one of those rare, sunny winter days, and good thing, we had a decently long walk ahead of us. Making the most of the daylight hours, which are pretty limited here in Sweden, we get up at sunrise. Not exactly early, but early enough for us consider ...
Not around every corner
As American's we take it for granted that at nearly anytime of the night if a craving hits us, or we have a late night at work and need to pick up some groceries, we hop in our cars and head to the nearest grocery store, Wal-Mart, or takeout. For most of ...
Leaving America – Part 3, Stockholm to Malmö
We spent only a few short days in Stockholm before we began our next trek over to Malmö, where we will be staying until the end of March, and thank goodness for that. I think....I know I speak for us all when I say we ready to be done traveling for a ...
Where it begins
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” -J. Krishnamurti So many of us get up each day and with little variation, we do the same thing day in and day out. We get up, go to our jobs with a grimace on our face because ...
New Years in Stockholm
As we woke up on New Year's Eve, we really hadn't planned to do a whole lot. In typical fashion we starting slowing waking up around 10:30, we are still getting used to the time change and thus staying up late and sleeping in late. While 10:30 may n ...