Finding Petronella
A young woman, a 90-year-old legend, and the journey of a lifetime.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…do not seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be...
Petronella has come home! Retraction: (n.) withdrawal of a promise, statement, or opinion. I apologize. I owe you all a retraction. The entirety of my previous post is true, except for this one part about...
“I’ve let both you and my mom down, and I’m sorry.” I blinked back tears as I read the email again, and disbelief washed over me. It was from Solange. On...
I was curious to know what would come out of my pen when I wrote my last “Hello Dear Friend, I love today” letter in Oulu. It was simple, it was...
On Monday, I began walking north from Jyväskylä toward Oulu. I have been trying to learn the Finnish language, without much success. Each day of my walking journey, using the Finnish...
I am finding it difficult to put the last week and a half into words. The words “week and a half” feel strange when I say them, because I have removed my watch...
Drawn by something I could not define, I walked the road to Monikkala manor. It seemed vaguely familiar, like a road I had walked in a dream last December. The crunch...
I knew this would come, but I kind of hoped it wouldn’t. Today’s journey found me in a town called Kotka. It was the last destination I had to check off the list of...
When I first set out to retrace Petronella’s steps across Finland, I was under the impression that she walked straight from Helsinki to Lapland. While that would be pretty impressive, in reality...
Finding Petronella 