Five Finnish friends take a sauna together and discuss the pressing issues of the day.
In 1904, Jean Sibelius and his family moved into Ainola, their new family home on the shores of Lake Tuusula. Some years later, his friend Edward Elgar…

February 2022

I’m not J. K. Rowling or J. R. R. Tolkien. Good names don’t come easily to me. I’ve built small language-learning apps with crappy names like English…
In October 1911, Ludwig Wittgenstein turned up unannounced at Bertrand Russell’s door in Cambridge. But what happened five minutes earlier?
There are a number of reasons why I am starting this blog. I want to get better at writing, for one, and that takes practice. Then I have some ideas for…