Last night Lance Armstrong, the once king of cycling, was on a special Oprah interview to discuss doping and his problems. Or something like that. This has nothing to do with Sweden, but sports and doping affects everyone. And we, as fans and admirers, end up feeling betrayed and angry over years of denial by [...]

By now, all of you have read or heard about the mass killings in Newton, CT. The killing of twenty children and seven adults has sent the nation into another state of mourning, the fourth this year, just before the happy holidays. There is a lot of talk now, as always after such a national [...]

I had originally written a long post about the right to gay marriage after watching the fallout in North Carolina and Colorado this past Tuesday. On Wednesday, President Obama became the first president ever to endorse that gays “should” have the right to marry. I do wish he said “right” instead of “should” but at [...]

Last week my friend and I threw a baby shower for a dear girlfriend of ours. Most of you non-anglophones are probably wondering what is a baby shower. Tissue pompom fun – so cute! A baby shower is a party thrown for a mom to be having her first child one to two months prior [...]