Boreal Expat

Random thoughts of an American in Finland

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Coke, unruly tourists, and plastic bags of gas

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Here in Finland, warm weather has finally arrived and so has the summer home improvement season. There’s lots to do, a LOT to do, so I’ve be...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

Pressing For A Presser

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It seems that MAGA folks are obsessing over the fact that Joe Biden hasn’t stood at a podium and taken questions from the media some 50 days...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Bonaparte Wannabe

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Joe Biden has been president for a week now, and it is certainly refreshing to have what seems so far to be a normally competent administrat...
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...
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About Me

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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