Category: Miracle Drug

One of the biggest issues back at work is self-confidence (of which I do have plenty) – and sometimes I wish I could give some of my self-confidental surplus to us, the people, the newspaper, our product, the things we love to do. Because – and this is probably the best quote I have heard…

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the last time I sat in class in this very building, the floors were plastic, the rooms were smelly and people were my age. now you walk on wood, fresh paint lingers in the air and with some imagination some of these kids could be mine. I need to speed up a little. I believe.

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funny thought: I don’t belong where I fit and I don’t fit where I belong. I believe.

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And then I dream of streets, those I have walked and lived in, those I have never seen and yet have to. Those that stuck to my memory and those I have long forgotten. Of avenues large and wide, of side roads dark and small. The best thing about streets: You can walk them. I…

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It was somewhere half-way through the game, when I saw him up there in the stands. There were few people watching but he was one of them. It felt like god had listened. I believe.

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and suddenly there are wordless chords deep down inside, and the feeling that peace, after all – can not be far away these days – even if you wonder where the journey is leading, traveling from home to home. i believe.

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And it never lets me go. it reaches out to me despite what I am trying to do to get away from it. Not that I want to, or should. Some things are meant to be. It’s out there and I know it. I believe.

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Sometimes I wish my dad would just call in and ask me how I am. But then again there need to be things left I can still improve with my children. I believe.

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I remember what I though: “He’ll never get up.” Then he started moving and you could see his breath condensing on the visor. When they finally carried him off the ice, nobody though he’d return for the game or even the series. Never before and after have I seen a more dedicated player, a more…

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There’s certain lines in certain situations that trigger something inside you. In my case it’s the desire to see more, do more, live more. I just figured that I sometimes mistake action for motion. What will become of me? I believe.

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i have been following this blog closely over the course of the past year(s) – the author plans(ned?) to make his first million by a certain age. yesterday he was laid off, a consequence of the financial crisis. it’s as far the most radical example of how our world changes, of how much we have…

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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. I believe.

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being a journalist seems like a lovely job. i am sitting in tunisia, in a hotel someone else paid for, on a plane ticket somebody else paid for. and still it’s only a cover up. because you are afraid that one day the words won’t come or they are there but they are out of…

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You’re born with nothing, and better off that way, Soon as you’ve got something they send someone to try and take it away, You can ride this road ’till dawn, without another human being in sight, Just kids wasted on something in the night. I believe and even more so.

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Weil es manchmal egal ist ob man jetzt wirklich, wirklich mutig ist oder nur tut als ob, tut als ob. (Kettcar – Fake for real) I believe.

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I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might. I believe.

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it’s been such a tough week, sometimes things just are torn up in some way or another. it’s been a week without drive, i didn’t reply to calls and texts and i can only ask all of you to please not take it too hard on you and me respectively. i need some time for…

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it’s been more than two years when i got the key. it sits there and whenever i try to open a lock somwhere it reminds of the moment it was given to me. tonight we had a beer with christoph once again – it felt like an eternity since we had met (excluding tuesday) and…

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when I was a kid one of my teachers once told my mom “I won’t start any discussions with your son anymore” – I was pretty talkative already back then and if I thought it was time to voice my opinion, I did so, coming form a family where most things were openly discussed. The…

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1. going away 2. coming home 3. days like today i believe.

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I had this conversation a couple of days ago, it was about happiness, about how life can radically change from drowning in money, (wrong) friends, living in a dream world. I never really though about it the other way, how things can go from 100 to zero. from a life you think you had to…

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You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don’t even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don’t even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in…

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I have had this song in my ear since we left Finland. And even though I can not understand their lyrics – nobody can – I know them. I know it’s about arriving in a place you have never left, simply because you belong there. For the first time in years I didn’t feel lonely…

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i have always firmly believed that life and the happiness that comes with it is defined by a series of what i call perfect moments. there was a slight breeze on the jetty that stretched out into the water, the sunrays on astrid’s face i sat on the front porch of mikkos summer cottage. there…

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Around here, everybody acts the same Around here, everybody acts like nothing’s changed Friday night, the club meets at Al’s Barbecue The sky’s still, the same unbelievable blue I believe.

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when I moved to Finland in 2002 I didn’t know anyone, but my girlfriend. No one. Zero. Niente. I started looking for hockey teams and practiced with two or three until I kind of settled in with one of them, the Vaajakosken Pelikaanit, playing division III. I played two seasons for them, partially 2001-2002 and…

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it’s been nearly three years. when we finally arrived in jyväskylä, we were greeted by urho. i have never met him before, well not directly as hanna was 6 months pregnant when we saw last. now he’s a 2 1/2-year-old 24-hour source of entertainment. while most of the things haven’t changed, this one has –…

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If that’s the only place where you can leave your doubts I’ll hold you up and be your way out I believe.

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I discovered this blog and had to chuckle. Scandinavians in general and Finns in particular (Yes, I do know Finland does not belong to Scandinavia but this would take things to far, eh?) are very conscious about how they look and dress. The funniest example of how bizarre things could turn in extremis – was…

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it’s been such a long time and quite honestly I am afraid of it. Finland, my secret dream, the country that I hold by my heart like my home – and finally i will take astrid there. We are leaving September the 2nd, just booked our flights. Honestly it feels like going home. And it’s…

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I had a memorable conversation with someone from our newspaper. it was about making progress, learning, getting new inputs. I’ve been working for five years there now and sometimes I feel like I have reached a point where I need to get a bump from somewhere. Not career-wise, but knowledge-wise. It feels like I am…

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yesterday i figured that it only takes one question to determine is somebody is a friend or not: can you help me? some people might answer: what is it? friends will ask: when? i believe.

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I always thought of myself as a house. I was always what I lived in. It didn’t need to be big. It didn’t even need to be beautiful. It just needed to be mine. I became what I was meant to be. I built myself a life. I built myself a house. I believe.

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me: why are you turning the light in the bathroom off? you: so I can’t see the wrinkles and forget I’m getting old. real love. i believe.

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The call came in early in the afternoon. It had barely taken us five hours to move all the money and now the apartment was ours. It’s been such a stressful summer so far, I just took it as a fact that it had worked out and didn’t think too much anymore. Right now I…

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after the Chinese government continues to block free internet access to the internet for journalists covering the Olympic Games, Reporters without frontiers and other organizations have started to publicly protest. the story however got a whole new twist once voices arose that Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee has personally assured the…

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while i am writing this i am looking out onto the lake. i just did an interview, had our photographers take his pictures and finally wrote down the story – all with my laptop, sitting at the water’s edge. funny enough today, we have all the means technology-wise to work differently, live differently but we…

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i just couldn’t fall asleep though it was a hard day, awake astrid and me lay there. up until this point it was a chain of one thing leading to another – finding an apartment, getting the loan approval, choosing colors, a new hardwood-floor, making dozens of decisions big and small. then i sat there,…

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it was my first day of high school. tanzenberg, an old monastery, sits on a hill about 15 kilometers from klagenfurt so basically you have to take the bus there. it was my grandfather’s duty to get me to the bus stop which is pretty close to where i work nowadays. when we arrived there…

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