CROSSING TIME ZONES
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I never knew my mother’s mother, who died in 1969 in her mid-forties, but I’ve been hearing stories about her all my life. She grew up in Bergen, on Norway’s west coast, and fled to Sweden during the Nazi occupation by riding a tandem bicycle through the woods together with a friend. She met my [...]
Having grown up bilingual and bicultural, I’ve always felt equally at home in both my countries, the U.S. and Sweden. In some ways I’m American; in others my Swedish roots win out. One time of year when I feel particularly Swedish is in December, when the Scandinavian traditions are the ones that [...]
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