Boreal Expat

These days I spend a lot more time thinking or reading about politics in the US than I probably should, and certainly more than I used to. ...

I’ve been back in Finland from our holiday in America for well over a month already and am only now getting around to posting anything abou...

In the early 90s, I was likely one of the few Americans working for a certain big Finnish IT company. In my case, it was part of a team in ...

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...