On March 31, Norway’s biggest TV channel, state-owned NRK1, broadcast a special half-hour program, beginning at 9:15 PM — prime…
A couple of years ago I wrote here about a couple whom I described as Norway’s answer to Britain’s Harry…
If there’s anything uglier and stupider than most of the songs performed at the annual Eurovision Song Contest, it’s the…
What do you think of when you hear the words “Nordic welfare state”? Government-run health care, with reasonable fees for…
“These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognize the years of one’s prime, always…
I don’t have kids, but for several years I’ve belonged to a Facebook group for people who absolutely despise Norwegian…
I grew up in a little Norwegian fishing community that was absorbed into Seattle proper. Just about every family that…