Boreal Expat

Life is good in Finland.  I have to confess that’s one of my main motivations for this blog – a certain satisfaction, maybe dangerously bo...

In 1989, after I had returned to Finland following a few years studying in the States, a friend of mine from Georgia came for a visit.   J...

As the US approaches another big vote, with the Democrats pitted against the Republicans for control of the Senate in the midterm elections,...

Where I grew up in rural north Georgia, it often seemed to us locals that when “outside” people bought land in the county, the first thing t...