Annalise falls down – skating edition

Longtime readers will remember that a common thread of our last sabbatical year was an attempt to try as many winter sports as possible, in a blog post series we called “Gavin and Allison Fall Down.” One of these entries was the time we tried short-track speed skating. I came away from this experience with […]

The barn troll needs his rice, or he’ll fold your cow into a barrel – an introduction to Norwegian Christmas

Nothing gets a Norwegian fired up quite like Christmas season; it’s dark, it’s snowy, the streets are icy, and there’s nothing for it but a beer, a fire, and some Christmas spirit. Without the holiday buffer of Thanksgiving, Norwegians start decorating early, and while American often complain about Christmas creeping earlier and earlier, no one […]