The weather's been dismal and gloomy this week in Stockholm (please note: it's May and I'm still shivering in a jacket and scarf), but that hasn't stopped me from exploring the city’s many sites. Yesterday's agenda? The cobbled streets of Södermalm.
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This was a city that was built for Instagram. Or maybe it's the other way around.
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Most great journeys start with a single step. Mine began in a sleepy part of Queens and more layovers than I would care to count.
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It was the 8th annual JazzAge Lawn Party, and we were there to welcome the Roaring 20s back in style.
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Since my parents brought me several cardboard boxes full of my late grandmother's china over Christmas, I had piled
them off to one corner, in part because I had nowhere to put them, but also
because subconsciously I did not want to admit that my grandmother was gone. But after months of waiting, and in the wake of a new job, it was time to reconcile with the past.
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Americans have been hard-wired to think that working hard and showing dedication automatically equates a promotion, a raise, and perhaps even some well-earned vacation time somewhere down the line. The national conversation has only been fueled by Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer. But spending that extra half an hour checking emails or staying hours after your shift was supposed to end has its limits - often intangibly so.
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The ennui of my generation makes great fodder for artistic pursuits. It is not unlike the struggle of artists in 1960s Greenwich Village, or Hemingway’s Lost Generation, but while the Hannah Horvaths of the world are coming to terms with their financial realities, and the Shoshannah’s are dealing with wave of new emotions after losing their virginity, the one thing that “Girls” is missing is a higher goal. Not only that, it’s missing a pulse.
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A trip to the South American country over the summer prepared me for Superstorm Sandy in ways I never thought possible.
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Welcome to my little corner of the world. Come in, why don't you?
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