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September 21, 2017 By Jodi

Trusting My Audience

November 21, 2016 By Jodi 3 Comments

Today I'm letting you in on a little of the backend stuff that happens here at Dear Sabrina. I run this blog on WordPress, and I've installed a standard set of plug-ins (think of them as apps) to help me run different aspects of the backend. One of those, perhaps the most popular, is called...

Winter in Sweden: the Basics

December 15, 2016 By Jodi 5 Comments

It's time to talk about winter in Sweden. A while back I wrote about summer in Sweden, essentially saying that it's like heaven. And winter? Well, winter can feel like the opposite; or if not quite like hell, then rather like a long, slow slog uphill through waist-deep snow in the dark with clouds covering...

Some Thoughts on a Friday

September 23, 2016 By Jodi 6 Comments

I went to a funeral earlier this week on the island of Åland. I hadn't known the person who passed very long, but I'd come to admire him in the months that I did. A friend and I went together, taking a ferry from Sweden to the Finnish islands lying in the Baltic.

Happiness isn't big enough

October 17, 2016 By Jodi 1 Comment

Last week I wrote a post considering the question of whether seeking happiness actually makes us miserable, as some maintain. (Spoiler alert: I don't think so.) I was moved by the comments to that post, and all week I've been thinking about this one: In the 1960s, there were some very popular and influential books that accused American...

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