Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Old Spice Tales

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Aftershave in a classic "buoy" shape. I hesitate to admit the following, because – despite heroic attempts at self-delusi...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Gun Play

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When a heavily armed psychopath began murdering members of the audience at a screening of the newest Batman movie in Colorado last Friday, i...
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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Venus in Transit

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Next Wednesday, Finland will experience a rather neat and rare astronomical event, though not one so easy to notice. The transit of Venus is...
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Citizenship

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Last week we applied for a new passport for my daughter, which required a visit to the US Consulate here in Helsinki. Though her current pas...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Pollen Nation

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Here in Finland we have been enjoying a glorious, warm spring, already hitting daytime high in the 20s (70s Fahrenheit), with the gray and...
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Kent Tankersley
I’m an expatriate American living in Finland, where to my utter surprise, I’ve somehow spent half of the fifty-odd years of my life, so far. Time does have a way of sneaking up on you. As an American and long-time resident in a foreign land, I often feel pulled between two worlds, no longer completely familiar with the land of my birth after so many years and yet not always a full-fledged member of the society where I’ve made my home. Call it the dilemma of the expat. You gain new experiences when you stray far from home and broaden your horizons, but you lose something as well. Finland, an unassuming country on the fringes of Western Europe, is not the most obvious place for someone from a tiny town in North Georgia to find themselves. How the hell did I get here? And why do I stay?
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