Boreal Expat

The way some things are done back in the States make perfect sense to me, and some don’t.  One example of the former is the “right on red” t...

I occasionally get plenty frustrated with the US Congress, as do most other Americans judging by the pitiful approval rating of only 12% tha...

Recently I saw a report on a British news channel about the growing popularity in the UK of something called “w ild swimming”.  For me thi...

Photo courtesy: Michael Foran Ten years.  A full decade now of a world changed in a single day by 19 murderous men.  In some ways i...

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...