Boreal Expat

One of the weirder places where American and Finnish pop cultures have met – and there aren’t really that many to begin with – is a TV studi...

Yesterday was the 100 th  anniversary of International Women’s Day, a fitting time for a few words about the state of sexual relations in Fi...

For much of this month, Helsinki has been sitting at the bottom of a high-pressure cell of air so cold that it had begun to feel oppressive....

While it wasn't exactly a New Year’s resolution, my family decided to go on a diet of only fish and vegetables for the month of January,...

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...