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Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

May 26th, outsourced

It's that time of year: Jeremy is running a 160km (100 mi) ultramarathon. You can track him at this link (just follow the dot named Palmer). As I am typing this, he has been running for nearly 10 hours; he likely has 16ish to go.

The TSA has an instagram account and it's kind of amazing.

Here's a good beginner's roundup of context for the My Family's Slave article I linked to last week.

How a 13-year-old boy brought down LA's most notorious serial killer. This story gave me the heebie-jeebies, big time.

Twitter brought me so many things this week. Trump went to Saudi and the jokes practically wrote themselves. Here was a favorite tweet of mine from that visit. Another is from Emannuel Macron's own account - he simply tweeted this video. Then there was Trump barging to the front of the crowd, and QUITE the handshake from Macron.

In stories that warm your heart: a homeless man helped save children after the attack in Manchester, and a mom who helped her quadraplegic son attend business school was awarded a surprise MBA, herself! [HT Jen]

Kuusamo Cliff Notes

Kuusamo Cliff Notes

Speed cameras in Finland

Speed cameras in Finland