I wrote previously about the fun things I get to do in the mornings while my colleagues are all sleeping. The flip side is that I do have some late nights, especially during my busy season, which runs from January to mid-April. The central organizing feature of my work is the annual 90-day legislative session […]

If you had any doubt about the cultural role of skiing in Norway, the promotional video for the recently-concluded Nordic Skiing World Championships sums it up nicely: “You wouldn’t build a house with two planks, yet somehow we’ve built an entire nation.” Gavin and I like to ski, and one goal for this year was […]

To answer some immediate questions, the title is completely true in that on paper, for a week, I am part of the US ski jumping team. It’s also not at all true, in that I do not jump, coach jumpers, provide any support to any jumpers, do anything to contribute in any way to the […]

We’ll go ahead and dispel any suspense from our last post about the championship: the professionals were a lot faster. The world championships (in Norwegian, verdenmesterskap, usually shortened to VM) began this week. On Wednesday night, there was an opening ceremony in downtown Trondheim. Annalise was asleep so we didn’t go, but we could hear […]