2011 July

For today’s ”Finnish Friday,” we cross the Maginot Line into France for the music of Melissa Mars. The lovely brunette has already built a pretty nice resume from film to music to musicals. American readers might remember catching a glimpse of her in the movie From Paris With Love as the prostitute picked up by John Travolta’s character Charlie Wax. In France, she is also known for her role

Norway Terror Attack The facts aren’t all in yet, but a quick search of Google shows that the worldwide media is gleefully reporting the “Conservative, Christian, Right-wing Radical” meme. At least one German paper acknowleged in the opening sentence of one of their reports that the motive is not known. That was nice. When we see attacks like this we automatically assume that they have an islamic

Wovon Sollen Wir Träumen – Frida Gold Today, we travel to Germany for “Finnish Friday” and explore the music of Frida Gold. I’m not fluent in German, but I did muddle my way through three years of it in High School. Surprisingly, I do have a somewhat of a decent vocabulary. But when you never use it, it becomes challenging to understand conversation. Clicking on a German video every so ofte

Chisu – Baden-Baden I once worked for a Finnish company which provided me the opportunity to travel there on four different occasions. The country is beautiful and I got to see it in each season. Finnish history and culture were both very interesting, and the language is quite unique as well. I also enjoyed the music. So on slow days, I search out what is popular in Finland and sometimes share it with friends

As Per The Experts Today, I received some training on how to effectively communicate with women. Naturally, this got me thinking. My readers are mostly women, so that must be why there are so few comments on my blogs – I’m not writing for my audience and you ladies just don’t understand me. With that in mind, I will apply the following suggestions I learned today to all future blogs: 1. I will no