Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Biden vs. Trump: The Soft Punditry of Debate Expectations

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It is an article of faith among Trump and his followers that Joe Biden is too old, feeble-minded, and physically weak to be president. (File...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Trump Care BS Overdrive

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So, after almost four years as president (and decades of hard work by Republicans before Trump), Trump finally announced the big GOP healthc...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Not a History to Bragg About

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Lately some folks in the US (especially in the South, you could even say the Old Confederacy) have become outraged over the idea of renami...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

April Foolishness

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A couple of things I picked up from the news from yesterday.  -- Trump is threatening to "adjourn" Congress because it's no...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Happy Good Friday?

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Today is Easter Monday, the end of our four-day Easter holiday. Normally, a four-day holiday on the cusp of vaguely spring-like weather is a...
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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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