In case you didn’t hear, yesterday was Earth Day. That’s right, the 42nd anniversary of the inaugural Earth Day held in New York City way back in 1970. The aim remains the same: protect the environment and the world’s natural resources through conservation efforts. This year’s motto is Mobilize the Earth™. In honor of Earth Day 2012, Oli [...]
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Multitasking Overload
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Emotional Resilience, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Food and Drink, Life Balance, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Writing, tagged children, college visits, competing demands, emotional resilience, exercise, expats, fitness, health, parents, sandwich generation, sleep, TCKs, Telegraph, university search, writing on April 20, 2012 | 16 Comments »
A few days ago I wrote of the challenges many of us face being sandwiched between generations. Just like everyone else, we expats do our best to care for, raise and guide our TCK children to adulthood(and beyond) while also staying connected to and supporting our aging parents. We just sometimes have a few wrenches thrown in due to our lack [...]
Never EVER Give Up
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Exercise & Sports, Family & Friends, Light Bulb Moments, United States, tagged Brazil, determination, never give up, tenacity, US Women's National Team, Women's World Cup 2011 on July 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Washington Post headline read ‘US Stuns Brazil’, citing ‘enough twists and turns to fill an entire tournament.’ Sporting News called it the ‘Improbable US Victory’. In Sports Illustrated, Swedish coach of the US Team Pia Sundhage spoke of ‘this American attitude, pulling everything together and bringing out the best performance in each other, that [...]
All Right, Ryan Giggs: You Listen Up
Posted in Exercise & Sports, Learning Dutch or Other Foreign Languages, tagged extramarital affair, football, Imogen Thomas, Ryan Giggs, super injunction, Wayne Rooney on June 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been stewing all weekend about the whole Ryan Giggs affair (yes, pun intended; it’s the only humor you’re going to get from me today). For anyone living on the west side of the pond (or who’s been residing in a cave in recent days), Ryan Giggs is the incredibly talented, Energizer Bunnyesque Manchester United side [...]
Your Cheating Heart
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Light Bulb Moments, tagged cheating, conscience, karma, life lessons, voetbal on May 21, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Sometimes you can be going along, living life and suddenly something occurs that completely alters your view of the world. Turns it upside down. It’s as if you’ve received a karmic slap in the face. You know what I mean. We’ve all experienced this. You realize immediately that you’ve encountered a defining moment, one that will remain with [...]
Pronounced Problems
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Guest Posts, Learning Dutch or Other Foreign Languages, Netherlands, tagged American expat in Netherlands, learning Dutch, suspended, voetbal on April 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Hey there, I wanted to share with you that today I am over at The Unexpected Traveller with my very first guest post. Since The Unexpected Traveller is based in Belgium, you could also say that I’m travelling today as I cross the border to visit our neighbor to the south. I’ve been following The [...]
I Get More Than I Give, and It Matters
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Life Balance, Netherlands, tagged driving, Dutch landscape, gift of time, soccer, voetbal on April 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The other evening I was driving Daughter to her voetbal practice. Voetbal (soccer back in the US), is something that brings her great joy. Not a ‘like to do’. It’s her passion. So when we arrived two years ago, we researched and queried and found a Dutch club with coaches and a program reflecting a strong [...]
30-Day Ultimate Blog Challenge
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Writing, tagged go for it, just do it, track and field, Ultimate Blog Challenge on April 3, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Greetings on this fine April morning! The sun is shining (always a plus in Nederland), the weather report calls for another warm, beautiful day. Having such great weather several days in a row, without rain? Amazing. Over a weekend? Meant to be celebrated. Savored in all its richness. Enjoyed to the very last minute when [...]
Tell Me Again Why I’m Still Up at 1 in the Morning??
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture & Customs, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Family & Friends, tagged basketball, Carolina, Elite Eight, expat rituals, March Madness, Tar Heels on March 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The last thing I needed was to be huddled around the laptop watching the UNC-Kentucky game well after midnight. On a ‘school’ night, no less. Knowing the alarm would ring at 6:30 am. Yet there we were, the laptop screen glowing in the inky darkness. It’s March Madness, remember? It had been a typically busy [...]
Maniacal March Madness
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, United States, tagged basketball, Carolina, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, UNC Tar Heels on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s March. For some, the month is merely the bridge between the weary winter and the hopeful spring. Yet for many Americans, the third month of the year can mean only one thing. March Madness is here! And despite our now living in the Netherlands, these American expats have no intention of missing out on [...]
See Joop Run. Run Joop Run.
Posted in Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Netherlands, tagged City-Pier-City Half Marathon, CPCLoop Den Haag, half marathon, The Hague on March 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A lot of people got up yesterday to run the highly anticipated annual City-Pier-City Run Half Marathon here in The Hague. Alas, Yours Truly was not one of them. I would have liked to, but I have a bit more work to do. Actually, quite a bit. A whole lot. (Like get back into running, for one thing. [...]
Sharing the Expat Wealth, (Part II)
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Culture & Customs, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats in Motion, Life Balance, Netherlands, New to Nederland, Travel, United States, tagged expat community, expat culture shock, explore, Netherlands, settling in on March 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Okay, welcome back to sharing with an inbound expat info and experience gleaned while living in Nederland! If you happened to miss it, here’s the first installment of sharing the expat wealth from two days ago. Just a quick reminder that these are my views, based on my research, experiences, and conversations with many others. People choose to live outside [...]
Oh I Just Couldn’t Resist…
Posted in Culture & Customs, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Netherlands, Oddities + Odds & Ends, tagged adventures, bicycles, Netherlands, riding bikes, tricked out bikes on February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One more! Okay, I realize that this technically is NOT a bicycle, but you have to admit folks do things with style here! (If you’re confused by this photo, check out my previous post here.)
Oddities: Trick Out My Ride
Posted in Culture & Customs, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Netherlands, Oddities + Odds & Ends, tagged adventure, bicycles, Netherlands, riding bikes, tricked out bikes on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Dutch sure do love their bicycles, yes they do! And I think it definitely falls into the ‘Oddities’ category. Now it’s not odd that they truly enjoy riding their bicycles everywhere. Bikes are a great way to get around: (relatively) low-cost, minimal maintenance, self-powered so you’re not dependent on fuel, healthy. So it’s not surprising that [...]
Oh This is Just Wrong…
Posted in Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, United States, tagged American football, commercials, expats, Super Bowl, voetbal on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was Super Bowl XLV, that annual pillar of American football majesty. The Super Bowl is the one night each year when America comes together as a nation to watch the world championship between the American Football League and National Football League conference winners. (This year it was the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Green Bay [...]
Dumber than Dirt?
Posted in Culture & Customs, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, tagged frozen fields, North Sea, voetbal on January 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Early yesterday morning I received a phone call that Daughter’s Dutch club voetbal game had been cancelled. Not surprising, since at the time it was -6 degrees Celsius in the small town 30 minutes north of here where she plays. That’s 21 degrees Fahrenheit people. And given the usual wind rolling in off the North [...]
Out with the Old, In with the New
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Learning Dutch or Other Foreign Languages, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Work, Writing, tagged articles, blog, exercise, health, learning Dutch, New Year's Resolutions, organized, published, working, writing on January 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It’s nice to be back after a short break that, while busy, was enjoyable, interesting, rejuvenating and restorative. I’ll share more about that in an upcoming post. As readers who follow earlier posts of mine will know, I’m big on reflection and New Year’s resolutions. In fact, the posts The Write Lesson Learned and Letting Go and then Most [...]
Body Integration
Posted in Exercise & Sports, Life Balance, tagged active lifestyle, body integration, exercise, healthy, in the zone on December 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Reverb10 challenge for the day (from Patrick Reynolds): Body Integration. This year, when did you feel the most integrated with your body? Did you have a moment where there wasn’t mind and body, but simply a cohesive YOU, alive and present? The short answer is that I had a few moments of body integration throughout [...]
Oddities: How Many Horses Does It Take for a Soccer Game?
Posted in Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Oddities + Odds & Ends, tagged autumn, horses, soccer, strange, voetbal on December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Earlier this fall I was on the sidelines watching Daughter’s high school soccer game. (Astute readers will notice the use of ‘soccer’ instead of ‘voetbal’, thinking I’ve made a mistake. Not so. Daughter’s school refers to the sport as soccer. Her Dutch club team obviously calls it voetbal. Just trying to keep up here, that’s [...]
Concentric Circles
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Exercise & Sports, tagged home, neighborhood, venture on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From the dawn of mankind, there have been explorers among us. Something deep within instructs us to go exploring beyond what we know and into the unknown. Like ripples on a pond when a pebble is tossed in, spreading out further from the center in concentric circles. The center is our home, and the widening [...]
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