The number of second-generation Finns - meaning people born in Finland with one or both parents born abroad - climbed above the 100,000 mark in 2025. Smallsteps is counted among them of course. But as

A glass of wine. I have been sipping at a bottle for the last week or so, and it has been quite enjoyable. However, even though it is a decent shiraz from Australia, it isn't as good as it could be, because

I am closing in on 50. A few more years and I will be at half a century old. What this means is I have seen a few changes in culture over the years and my childhood environment was quite different to that

From my past few blogs, I mentioned that I just went through a terrible breakup. It’s not about having a partner in real life, though. Still, I associate that experience with a breakup since they feel

Sometimes good news just pops up. Nothing that helps me at all, but someone I know is now expecting and I am just so happy for them and look forward to being even a tiny part in the life of their child.

Progress. What a beautiful word. Promising, carrier of hope for the betterment of… everything. It’s been 7 years now since the exact same thing had happened to me. From one day to the other, my daughter

‎Hello everyone I'm @respect01 welcome to my blog and to be Reflection community. ‎I am a very gentle and creative person. I truly enjoy spending time with children and playing with them because their

When it is my shift (we take it in turns) to put Smallsteps to bed, I read her books. We have read many, several series, and across various genres, and now we are reading the last we have in the shelf

Hope. We do a lot of hoping, don't we? We hope the best for them and us, we hope things will turn out alright, we hope that this will be good, or that won't happen. We hope a lot, but I wonder how much

For the couple months, I have been sitting at the kitchen table when I am at the laptop. Not sure why, but it has been better than on the couch upstairs, as I found myself too distracted there. Tonight

Pipped at the post. I don't know the last time I finished in the top 25 of the Modern Leaderboard, but with less than ten minutes to go before the end of season when maintenance also kicked in, I saw I

Wouldn't it be nice to always live on the other side? Or perhaps I am living on the other side and what I am seeing over the fence is where I belong. You might have to do some thinking to work that one

In the entire life sometime we think about the world around us and asked question to ourself how we spent our life how to save money and live a real life. Are You? if yes then is good you have mind :)

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

Back in the day, there was an unwritten contract that helped push us forward. To keep it brief, essentially governments took over basic education so that people were easier to employ, and then the companies

Halfway through my workout tonight, the mother of one of Smallsteps' friend's whom we had dinner with a couple weeks ago, came up to me and started talking. We talked for about half an hour, which ruined

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

It is that time of year again, the weekend before Easter. That means that we have decorated some pussy willow twigs with ribbons and feathers, and Smallsteps will knock on the doors of family to beg for