Boreal Expat

This is Boxing Day in Finland, or rather Tapaninpäivä (“St. Stephen’s Day”). It’s not a holiday celebrated back in the Baptist heartland I...

Not long ago I borrowed from our local library a book, Punamustavalkea -- 1918 kuvat ("Red Black & White -- 1918 Pictures"),...

Judging by all the buzz on the Internet the last week or so, some folks in the States are less than happy about how the holiday of Thanksgi...

Fifty years ago today, I sat in the school cafeteria of Southwestern Elementary in Georgia with my fellow second-graders, in fact with the ...

One of the notions that is drilled into the head of every American practically from birth is that the United States, of all the countries o...