Boreal Expat

So, after almost four years as president (and decades of hard work by Republicans before Trump), Trump finally announced the big GOP healthc...

I don’t usually talk about health issues on social media, but I recently became (once again) a health care consumer when I fell off a ladd...

Donald Trump, in a cabinet meeting last week after the GOP passed its big tax bill – the only major legislative achievement of his first ye...

Last week occurred one of the most shameful episodes in US politics. Even more troubling than the precipitous firing of an FBI director in ...

Here in Finland, we are in full autumn mode, meaning the days are certainly shorter and often gray, and plant life has either died or shed...

The other day I ran across an article in the Atlantic Monthly that perfectly illustrates something that seems could happen only in America....

Yesterday, I got up at 4:30 to take my youngest son to the airport for a trip to Spain. While he was stuffing the last of his gear into his...