Emilie Loring’s Novels: Where Adventure Meets Refreshment

In the search for renewed vitality, a feeling of refreshment, Emilie Loring’s novels light the way. “If, when they reach ‘the end’ they forget to go back for their problems and march blithely toward the day’s work pepped up and refreshed, refreshed—it’s a great word, isn’t it—I shall feel that I have achieved something.” Give … More Emilie Loring’s Novels: Where Adventure Meets Refreshment

Refreshed and Rested, Ready for Tea–or Fika!

“Refreshed, it’s a great word, isn’t it?” (Give Me One Summer) Hello again, everyone. I have returned from three weeks in Sweden with my resilience refilled, my optimism boosted. A day in Sweden doesn’t get too far along before someone suggests, “Shall we take a little fika?” Fika can be as small as a demitasse … More Refreshed and Rested, Ready for Tea–or Fika!