Of Music and Men

Veikko and Ilkka Talvi, 40 & 3 It was exactly a year ago when my wife’s cell phone rang in the morning and I answered it, not somet...

It is interesting how differently we react to someone departing. Going away may not be even permanent as there is a likelihood that a ...

Last month I made the mistake of purchasing a licence to watch television programs from Finland, country of my birth. Due to their strict co...

Hardly anyone can deny that our politicians are behaving like spoiled children in Washington. The empire of United Greek States of America d...

Veikko Talvi, 100 on June 21 2011 Upon arriving at the public senior home to see my dad, I heard sentimental songs, originating many deca...

I have flown over this frozen tundra almost every middle of June for 45 years. Having been a geography buff all my life the landscape is odd...

Death Plays the Violin We make fun of Al Gore having invented the internet, yet a major paper gives credit to a violinist for discoverin...

We can argue over whether change is good or bad, but it is inevitable. Who could have seen the collapse of the Soviet Union or the recent ev...

The phone rang and my youngest daughter, a college freshman, was on the line. We talked a bit about school but then she became very serious ...

Of the close to four decades I've lived in the United States, this country has been involved in armed conflicts much of the time. During...

Opening this morning's New York Times was uneventful. There were the usual bad news about our involvement in other countries' affair...

The drama in Detroit with the symphony will soon come to a head. What it will be is anyone's guess. This is a no-win situation: by stri...

We all start forgetting as we age. Many become victims of various forms of dementia. The scarlet letter"A" refers to the dreaded A...