Boreal Expat

After last weekend’s elections in Finland and America, both countries are closer to choosing a president.  In the case of Finland, a lot...

It’s fashionable, and totally correct I might add, to carp about how politics – the very serious business of organizing how people are gov...

This past Friday was one of those days when Finns are treated to a free holiday thanks to this being an officially Christian nation.  Frid...

We’re already a week into the new year.  I guess I’ll get used to it.  Sometimes it seems odd to think we’re already two years into this dec...

Last weekend we bought our Christmas tree (joulukuusi), a bit earlier than we normally do, mainly so that our son, who’s on leave from the a...