Warm Values Blog by Tuula Pere

Warm Values – Blog by Tuula Pere

Ph.D in Law, Children’s Author

Award-Winning Children's Author,Ph.D. in LawDr. Tuula Pere was born in Finland in 1958, and spent some of her essential childhood years in a small village in Eastern Finland. She moved to Helsinki at the end of the 1970s when she began her studies at the University of Helsinki...

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To Live and Experience – to Write and Imagine

April 17^th, 2023

Ifreed myself from previous professional obligations about ten years ago and devoted my time to storybooks. Instead of contracts, strategies, annual reports, and stock exchange releases, I dived into the same freedom I felt as a child with my imagination.As a child and young a...

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Peeling Potatoes with Father

My father passed away a decade ago, but he is still often with me. He comes especially close when...

December 4^th, 2022

My father passed away a decade ago, but he is still often with me. He comes especially close when I'm peeling potatoes.I always spent a lot of time with Father. We shared things that were important to both of us. He also confided in me about important experiences in his poor c...

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In Society

Has Writing for Children Changed Me?

June 3^rd, 2022

Illustration by Andrea Alemanno (Between the Walls, Tuula Pere, Wickwick, 2018)

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In Featured

As Time Goes By – But Where Does It Go?

Time is a mystery. Existence is a mystery, too

January 5^th, 2022

Time is a mystery. Existence is a mystery, too.It is not easy to measure time, at least not beyond its scientific and technical aspects. The experience of time is unique and individual for each person. For me, time is connected to the energy of being alive. Without the force o...

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In Inspiration

Fragile but Strong

– the Power of Generations

November 17^th, 2021

Illustration by Andrea Alemanno

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In Society

Climbing High – Taking Risks!

As a child, I climbed high trees and slippery cliffs, secretly went to the house’s roofs, and hun...

November 1^st, 2021

As a child, I climbed high trees and slippery cliffs, secretly went to the house's roofs, and hung from the ladder my head down. Was I too adventurous? Maybe, but my perception was that I knew my limits. Or if I didn't know yet, I had to find them. It wasn't enough if someone ...

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In Parenthood

The Libraries of My Life

What is your first memory of a library? I can share mine.

September 22^nd, 2021

What is your first memory of a library? I can share mine, even have some evidence for it. There is still a faded photo in an old newspaper clip in Mom's drawer, a picture of children listening to fairy tales read at a small library. I'm perhaps five years old and concentrate o...

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In Society

Life and Death

– words too big to write about

July 19^th, 2021

Though authors, scientists, and philosophers have filled libraries with books about life and death, the subject is still not covered and will never be. That’s why I don’t even try to do more than just touch these most significant issues of existence here.I’ve had a feeling of ...

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In Society

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