Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Friday, May 31, 2019

Obstruction of Logic

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We’ve now all seen Robert Mueller on TV. I, for one, still haven’t read his report. But I have been thinking about Attorney General Bill Bar...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Gain, or Just Pain?

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The Dow has dropped almost 1000 points (-3.6%) in the past week due to worries about Donald Trump’s trade war with China. To be fair, ...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Pining for a Paling?

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I’ve been reading “War and Peace” lately. In fact, for the last couple of years. Or has it been more like three years? A long time, in any...
Friday, October 26, 2018

It's Always the Media's Fault

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Trump may have a point when he recently blamed the media for the angry rhetoric that perhaps prompted some domestic terrorist to try to kill...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Gangland Diplomacy

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As North Korea has rapidly advanced its nuclear weapons capability over the last year or more, I have often been reminded of a movie star...
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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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