FINLAND THROUGH MY MEMORY’S MIND’S EYE             I have been to Finland with my Finnish wife Mari 29 times. Sometimes I reminisce about those days without looking anything up and this is what I come up with. My first trip brought us from Sweden to Turku on the Western coast of Suomi (Finland’s name for…

The Necessity of Social Fabric for a Society             Last night we watched the old film “Cinderella Man” about the boxer Gentleman James Braddox. He fought during the Great Depression in the late 1930s. He was famous for being a good, decent guy. In one of the early scenes, he talks to one of his…