I watch streams of melted ice-cream race down the sides of warm, thin pancakes…finally pooling around a glob of sweet lingonberry jam. No doubt, this Nordic weekly tradition of pea soup and pancakes  I’m gonna love. It got me thinking about other food traditions that have gradually infiltrated my world. Growing up, I remember waiting [...]

Taken in the remote village of Krang Yaw, Cambodia, this picture cracks me up every time. Totally unamused by our balloon animal project, his little face said it all. Camera – Nikon D40

“Ha! War-shing-tone!’, she exclaims in heavily accented English. “Obama! I am so happy for you!”, her dark eyes gleaming from a face creased with age. While she’d been prepping for a funeral, I’d pulled her aside for questions – this old Swedish church lady well into her sixties. Ten minutes after our questions had been [...]