Category: Personal
New venue, new venue!
Over the weekend I started up a Substack publication. If you’re interested, you can access it here: NaganOfCopenhagen. It was work enough just to get the settings configured, so the only post over there for the time being is an introductory one that’s probably entirely redundant to anyone who’s visited this blog more than a…
Weekend Mush
Out of the clear blue sky
Vinterferie
Against all odds, our household has recovered enough from its recent bout with the Wuhan virus to be permitted a vacation. To ensure I get the maximum recharge value out of it, there will be no blogging from me during this vacation. (Persons planning to loot our house in our absence should note that we…
Stormy Weather
On Friday night the Danish national men’s team, strong favorites to win the European Championship, got knocked out of the semifinals by losing to Spain after having led for the first 45 minutes. On Saturday morning Herself and I went through the all-too-familiar ritual of queueing up at a test center for the obligatory four-days-after-near-contact…
Resolute
“Now it’s Christmas again… and Christmas lasts through to Easter”
This is my nineteenth Christmas in Denmark, so the Danish Christmas traditions no longer trouble, discomfit, or surprise me. They’re the traditions my own children have grown up with; I’ve not only metabolized Danish Christmas internally, but helped advance it forward to a new generation. And yet it was never my intention to raise my…