Opinion

Americans learning Swedish

Do you speak another language? For many Americans, learning a new language happens in high school or college, but maybe those weren’t available when you were younger. When my husband and I moved abroad for year-long stays, we fully embraced learning the local language.

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Moon Can Take Me Home

Oh I’m dreaming tonight of the prairie, Where cattle drift along the hills of green, And your horse and you can go Where no signs of people show, And every breath of air is sweet and clean.

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A passing fancy

Washington recently survived a brief flutter over ethics with an eye on Supreme Court justices, some of them with peculiar friends and favors.

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20 stories of wood

Join us for a road trip through northern Sweden to visit Skellefteå, a city of about 77,000, where we visited a friend and explored the downtown area, including the impressive new cultural center. Next week, we’ll check in on Sweden’s neighbor Finland, and travel above the Arctic Circle.

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