Boreal Expat

I admit it , I’m obsessed with Donald Trump, a man I detest so much that I’ve been known to switch channels the instant he appears on TV. S...

One day this week I was at the summer cabin we’ve been building about an hour east of Helsinki, trying to apply another coat of paint to th...

Once, when I was a kid, we had a visit from the family of my mother’s uncle, a preacher who at the time was living in Macon, Georgia. For s...

Finland has seen some unusually prominent political demonstrations recently over the question of immigration, including a massive peaceful...

Near my home in North Helsinki is what I usually refer to as “the horse farm”. That’s not a completely correct description of Tuomarinkylän...