Boreal Expat

When it was announced that Joe Biden would be meeting with Vladimir Putin during Biden's June trip to Europe, there was some speculation...

I was recently reminded of a part of Helsinki with a very colorful name. It's one very small part of South Harbor, where the big ferries...

This past week we in Helsinki have apparently been treated to a display of Northern Lights, or aurora borealis for the scientifically inc...

I live on the northern edge of Helsinki in a suburb called Torpparinmäki, a community clustered around a hill that barely rises above the fl...

The first time I saw Helsinki, the city I've ended up spending half my life in, wasn’t from a plane overhead or from one of the ferries ...

A couple of weeks ago, Helsinki was hit by probably the worst possible weather phenomenon you can experience this time of the year -- it tu...