Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Humor of Mitt Romney

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Among the many brouhahas, big and small, that have popped up in this election cycle in the US, the most recent is a comment that Mitt Ro...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Last Place

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I’m one of those people who love lists. And I’m not alone, judging by how eager magazines are to entice readers with such rankings as “Ameri...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Formidable Formica

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Finland rightly has a reputation for great northern scenery and nature, including some abundant wildlife. Most people from the tempe...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

The Olympics

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The Olympic Games in London are over, and so is our two-week stretch of staying up late every night to watch the competitions. Finland end...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Stalin's Kudzu

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Being from the southern US, I am all too familiar with a sight you often see traveling through Dixie – places where a single type of veg...
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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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