Boreal Expat

In my long slow struggle with the Finnish language, I sometimes run across little examples of what makes it so difficult, for me anyway. ...

I have an unfortunate weakness for really lame inside-family jokes, something my wife and kids will certainly vouch for. There is one s...

Over the last few years, as I’ve watched the melodrama of US politics play out, I’ve been impressed by the number of my fellow Americans who...

For some reason, I’ve found myself on more than one occasion in Finland forced to explain a certain fundamental concept of the United Stat...

For the last couple of weeks or so Finland has been experiencing an impressive blast of winter weather, thanks to a persistent high-pressure...