Personal stories and investigations

Бытует мнение, что если человек родился в определенной стране, то и язык этой страны будет легко выучить, так как его окружают носители…

Слова, которые мы говорим, или которые нам нравятся, или часто попадаются на глаза, очень важны, так как они являются нашими мысле-формами…

Любимые фильмы из детства, как и любимые песни, могут многое рассказать о нас самих. И не только. Они могут раскрыть нам истории нашего…

В детстве, одним из моих любимых занятий было чтение вслух.

This is a continuation of the Part One.

In October last year, I received an email from a certain ‘Georg’, a Russian man, who approached me in regards to my partial Family Tree on…

The article is a continuation of the Part One.

In June 2023, I was approached by two of my distant cousins — one Australian born and one Croatian born. The first one still lives in…

In November 2021 I purchased my first autosomal DNA test on a leading online DNA platform, My Heritage, founded in 2003 with its…

My seventh job was balancing between being an employee and employer, and was the last one working for someone else. I acquired the job…

My six job was the first on the list of start-ups that I had worked for. The company that I landed at, rather unexpectedly, was called…

Comparing to the previous four, my fifth job was the most rewarding in self-development sense. I got to cover a maternity leave for…

My fourth job was a result of using one of my connections. It was my classmate’s husband whom I contacted and asked whether he would like…

My third job was very similar to the second one but in a completely different environment and setting. Having moved from Helsinki to…

My second job was with a Finnish travel agency Norvista that in 1997 used to have its office in the Astoria hotel right opposite the…

I’ve recently reconsidered the experience that I have got in my CV. Instead of looking at it from the point of view of a potential…

Some four and a half months ago, right before the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the sky, my mother had got a present… from the…

They say — history repeats itself. Well, not quite. There is certainly a cyclicality to themes and areas of life. But each time ‘the…