This is our life

A three-day trip to visit the remote island of Jurmo, Finland deep in the Finnish archipelago on sea-kayaks

A man walks out of his downtown house and looks down the road and notices the twenty or more potholes. He exclaims that one of them is…

Seamus Heffernan’s debut crime novel is an enjoyable romp through the city of London in the eyes of American investigator Thaddeus Grayle

… or, how the path to the summit of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka helped me understand my relationship between two cultures.

“I love Canada. I don’t know if you know the place but I spent four years living in St. John’s, Newfoundland! Happy Canada Day!”

Between May and June, Finland undergoes a cultural metamorphosis. After many months of darkness, like leaves budding from branches or a…

Finally after a very long time, I’ve uploaded the very best of the photos that I have taken in the country of my birth, Sri Lanka. Included…

“Oh you have a very long name! Where are you from?” “Canada!” “Oh your name is nothing ‘Canadian’ like Jacques?!”

By nature, we are made of two equal parts through the mere fact of our genetics. How we build ourselves beyond that is very much our own…

Tomorrow, on December 6, Finland celebrates 100 years as a country.

It’s not often I get to share news such as this about where I work. I moved to Helsinki to join this company because of my strong belief…

I’m homesick. The sky is dark in Helsinki. Cold rain whips against the windows. My good friend Eddie has passed through Helsinki like a…

Time. That most elusive of constants. We do everything in our power to stretch it out but like an elastic band it snaps back into place at…

In 1992, an eventful and historical year similar to every other year this world has seen, a group of Hong Kong teenagers bid farewell to…

It is September in Helsinki and the Dark is definitely Rising. I suppose I could have used the over-used Game Of Thrones, “Winter Is…