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

Do you believe in life before death? A priest asked me this question recently. And indeed, it is the question we should ask ourselves when we feel that life might be more than what we currently have. Every

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

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux's 1 April 2026 Wednesday Night Live livestream breaks down unions as cults, state coercion vs true voluntarism, greed's ethics and faith in dating calls to forge libertarian

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

First off, I always though that Mark Twain had written that but I wanted to double check and sure enough, he ripped that quote off from someone else. It seems French philosopher Blaise Pascal (which clearly

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

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.

En ocasiones me considero una persona demasiado perfeccionista a nivel general, y aunque a veces eso puede ser visto como algo positivo, la más de las veces creo que a las personas que somos así nos hace

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

A little philosophy to close the day. I think there is wisdom in this little story, even if its sprinkled with huumor. Much love -MenO ▶️ 3Speak

Imagen creada con IA Esta es mi participación vez en este encuentro de @talentos invita a escribir sobre "El libro de la vida", con un tema que tiene mucha tela que contar, si escribí contar,

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

I got ready quickly, rushing after work to catch a concert in the city center. I was imagining the piano passages of Evgeny Khmara and a virtuosic performance of French chanson. I must have been only slightly

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

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