Boreal Expat

Last week my wife started making sima , in preparation for the May Day holiday (or Vappu , in Finnish). Sima is a light, citrusy, sligh...

A couple of days ago, on Easter Monday, as my wife and I took a two-hour walk around the woods near our home, she taught me an extremely pr...

I’m struck by the kind of small coincidences (and by “small” I mean trivial) that you run across every once and a while. This past week, whi...

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...

This is the time of the year when I start thinking seriously about summer vacation.  It’s also the time of the year when I realize it’s almo...