The culture and religion in which I live say one thing - after death, you move to the kingdom of heaven and there is no return to earth (unlike some other religions and cultures where it is believed that

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

Don't worry, don't be shocked either, if you don't know what the word means. I met this word in Hungarian last week and had to look it up, as I had no clue either, so to save you from a search, here it

I always remember that it was on Holy Thursday that my soul returned to my body, exactly three years ago... That year, Holy Week fell on April 2, exactly two months after Dad had passed away, and although

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

Relationships should always leave you balancing in a better place than the one you were in. Otherwise it is worth stopping to think… In practice we know that many times there are people who come into your

A first impression is usually the first thought, opinion, or judgment we have about something at a first glance. These judgments could be towards anything, such as an individual, an object, a place, and

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.

Although it is good to allow ourselves days of rest, there are days when we have to force ourselves to stay alive, ac

Spent some time sitting on the patio yesterday getting some sun. Did some chores around the house. Felt good to do something after my episode and resting all weekend. While sitting there with the sun on

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

I belong to this generation so called "The silent generation" because I was born in the last century, the 20th, lol... Without statistical dehumanization, I think....To attribute this mania or

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

This is a special week for those of us who are Catholic, as it marks Holy Week—or the Great Week. Here, Holy Thursday

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

Usually I'm not the over thinker, over analyzer type of person, who has to think for hours and days about everything and is still on the fence, but some matters require you to understand what's happening,

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

Earlier this week I was watching an analyst share his opinion and assessment of the current Geo-political events and situation and he said something that made me thinking. He was talking about what Trump