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Dear Julia—Ask a psychologist about life in Denmark

Finding meaning, connections, and a bit of humor in life between cultures. In Dear Julia, psychologist Julia Jones answers readers’ questions about life between cultures,...

Being Danish: Family Culture and Values – What Family Looks Like in Everyday Denmark

Family culture and values can look very different depending on where you grow up. In some places, family is everything, the center of life,...

The Little Viking Saga – Endless sand – Episode 9

When we initially decided to move to Denmark I immersed myself in as many books as possible about the Danish way of life and...

Tur-retur: Episode 9 – A society of swearing and unsanitized song lyrics

Car karaoke is a not-so-guilty pleasure that I don’t get to indulge in all that often in Denmark. Between the high-quality bike infrastructure (even...