I desperately wanted to take a night train to Copenhagen, and we were all set to book. But Lily and I got Covid. It was quite an ordeal...

We all know the medical symbol of a snake around a staff, right? But why should the other animals get left out. Walking through...

When I joined the Stockholm Critical Mass ride, I was really excited to learn about a mapping app called Critical Maps. It's an open...

Time to rest is very important to Swedish life. And having appropriate time off means you can vary your activities. I've heard so many of...

I wish we had taken the train to Slovenia. I was going for a bike conference, after all. But I got overwhelmed by how many trains, from...

I guess all of my bike rides, right now, are island bike rides. But this one on Lidingö felt particularly island-y. The bicycle advocacy...

We were told that Stockholm would completely empty out, on Midsummer. So, we were very pleased to receive an invitation to spend the day...

We spent Sweden's National Day in the park, with a few thousand of our closest friends. The opera and ballet were there, with...

Both the sun and the moon are visible in this photo. I think it's a great representation of my experience with a Swedish summer. On July...

My family arrived. I got a lot of work done, for my Valle program scholarship, before they got here. But I really missed them. We jumped...

At the Stockholm Critical Mass ride, I met a man, named Björn Billung. He was riding a hand trike and it was the most amazing one I've...

Using fiction to prepare for visiting Sweden When my family lived in Malawi, we had a lot of time to read. As it was such a foreign...

Back before we had kids, Teddy and I drove to Nashville, from Sand Mountain Alabama, to attend an Americana music festival. We saw Jim...

“’Bicycling without age’ because it’s a human right to have wind in your hair!” – Dr. Jan Gehl What a treat to spend a week talking about...

In the past week, I've had the pleasure of spending time with two former Valle Foundation recipients. One was UW Alum, Cat Silva, who I...

For college, I went to Bryn Mawr, a women's college outside of Philadelphia. When I moved to Memphis, there were 12 alums in town, who...

I read an article, before arriving, that an electric-assist fleet of bicycles would launch soon, for the City of Stockholm's bike share...

I enrolled in a Lindy Hop class. This version of swing dance, born out of the Harlem Renaissance, is extremely popular here. In fact, I...

I know we have dads who push strollers, in the US, and wear babies and bike kids to school. But there are just so many of these here, it...

Would you know what to do with the products in each of these cartons? Sure, the tomato soup, probably. But after the milk, on the left...