Category Archives: Family

This Week From The Finnish Heritage Center

You are one-quarter Finnish and it's time TO OWN IT. You might not eat pickled herring on rye for breakfast every morning, but goddamn it, you have a healthy respect for the umlaut, those little dots above the vowel in your last name that stand for KICK and ASS. Your skin isn't pasty.  White is the new ...

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The Ruins Of Us

This is the week. The week my sister's book, THE RUINS OF US, goes on sale.   Keija once equated writing and publishing a novel to giving birth and being a mother - an analogy I detested at the time, being pregnant and ...

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Guesty Monday: Gonna Kill Him Will Slay You

My Guesty Mondays are almost over, but not before I present one of my favorite bloggers:  Erin, from  I'm Gonna Kill Him.  Hilarity and talented story-telling abound at her site, where she riffs on marriage and family.  And here's your belated Christmas gift: click

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