Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Monday, October 26, 2015

The Parable of the Selfish "Hero"?

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There are so many strange little stories coming out of the US presidential race that it’s hard to keep up with them all. However, one invol...
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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Honoring Tater Patch

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This summer, President Barack Obama made a much-publicized trip to Alaska, during which he emphasized the effects of climate change on the ...
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Sunday, September 6, 2015

Born in the USA

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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...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

It's a Pieni Maailma After All

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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...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Foraging

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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...
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Kent Tankersley
I’m an expatriate American living in Finland, where to my utter surprise, I’ve somehow spent half of the fifty-odd years of my life, so far. Time does have a way of sneaking up on you. As an American and long-time resident in a foreign land, I often feel pulled between two worlds, no longer completely familiar with the land of my birth after so many years and yet not always a full-fledged member of the society where I’ve made my home. Call it the dilemma of the expat. You gain new experiences when you stray far from home and broaden your horizons, but you lose something as well. Finland, an unassuming country on the fringes of Western Europe, is not the most obvious place for someone from a tiny town in North Georgia to find themselves. How the hell did I get here? And why do I stay?
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