Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Sandy Hook

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Last summer, after the shooting death of a dozen people in a Colorado movie theater, I decided that such senseless killings on a sicke...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

O Holy Socks

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I haven’t been blogging much lately, being too busy with other things that someday might lead to something more lucrative than blogging – wh...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Aftermath

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Saturday morning brought the news that Barack Obama had won a majority of votes in the state of Florida. That might be the very definition o...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The Home Stretch

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Finally, the day has arrived. This time tomorrow, we’ll know who the next American president will be – unless a recount is needed and they h...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Minding the Gender Gap

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Another one those global rankings came out last week that illustrate why I very much like living in Finland. The World Economic Forum is...
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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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