Category: Culture
Hidden danger
In the darkness, the walls reverberated, and I stirred in my bed. In the dark, I could hear my son’s soft breaths. His…
Read MoreForeigners taking Greenlanders’ jobs
I was at a cafemik this week – coffee and cake at a friend’s house, to celebrate a birthday. There were a lot…
Read MoreNot so different
When I was a kid, we spent the long summer holidays in a caravan park by a lake that opened to the Pacific…
Read MoreSeconds count
Walking along the street toward work in the morning darkness, I watched the seconds on my phone stopwatch slowly tick toward 8:15am. Only…
Read MoreUnexpected installations
One of the things I particularly like about Greenlanders is their propensity to just drop by. Now and then, on a Saturday afternoon,…
Read More“Why would I be friends with you? You’re a foreigner”
A few years ago, a friend wrote a blog post posing the question of whether Danes are friendlier in Greenland than they are…
Read MoreFeeling good about fur
Warm winter jackets come out at this time of year. On a busy morning commute, the bus to town could be filled with…
Read MoreWhat is the difference between Greenland and Denmark? “Everything”
I was flicking through Air Greenland’s in-flight magazine – Suluk – when I saw an interview with Greenlandic singer Julie Berthelsen, who lives…
Read MoreLost at sea
Imagine you lost your phone seven hundred kilometres from home on an isolated beach reachable only by sea? What do you reckon your…
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