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Expat Teens Talk, With Much to Say

Posted in Blogging, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Repatriation, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), tagged Diana Smits, Dr. Lisa Pittman, expat teens, Expat Teens Talk, Repatriation, TCKs, writing on March 16, 2012 | 6 Comments »

As a writer and an expat, I like to keep abreast of the current literature in the field. The field itself is relatively small, which is why new arrivals are long awaited and eagerly devoured. Recently I had the opportunity to read and review Expat Teens Talk: Peers, Parents and Professionals Offer Support, Advice and Solutions [...]

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Pansies Oh So Successfully Perked

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Authors, Expat Life, tagged author, Bodrum, expat life, gay life, Jack Scott, Jo Parfitt, Perking the Pansies, Summertime Publishing, turkey, writing on January 17, 2012 | 12 Comments »

One of the absolutely best aspects of the internet is the ability to find all kinds of information at your fingertips. Those of you who remember life before the ‘world wide web’ know exactly what I mean; those younger can just roll your eyes and skip the next paragraph. It continually amazes me that you can [...]

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Celebrating @Home in Dubai

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Writing, tagged @Home in Dubai, Anne O'Connell, expat book, expat survey, Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, United Arab Emirates, writing on December 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »

    Congratulations to cyber friend and talented writer Anne O’Connell who has just done what only a small percentage of people ever do: write a book and have it published! Despite being launched just two days ago, Anne’s book, @Home in Dubai: Getting Connected Online and On the Ground, is now the must-have book for [...]

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Author Matt Krause on Writing

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Authors (Other), Expat Authors, Expat Life, Writers on Writing, Writing, tagged A Tight Wide-open Space: Finding Love in a Muslim Land, author, Delridge Press, Matt Krause, stories, turkey, writing on December 9, 2011 | 12 Comments »

  Is it any wonder that writers read and readers often write? We enjoy getting lost between the pages of a book, drawn into the world created by the author. We’re enthralled with the intoxicating power of the written word. One of the best books I had the pleasure of encountering this year was A [...]

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Coming Out of the Writing Closet

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Guest Posts, Turning Points Book, Writers on Writing, tagged author, Corrie Ten Boom, fear, God, Holland, Jo Parfitt, Kate Cobb, Qatar, Sarah Koblow, stress, Summertime Publishing, TheTurningPointsBook.com, Turning Points book, writer, writing on November 2, 2011 | 6 Comments »

The following is a guest post from my lovely friend and fellow co-author of Turning Points: 25 Inspiring Stories From Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Turned Their Careers and Their Lives Around (Kate Cobb, editor, Summertime Publishing, 2011), Sarah Koblow. Sarah lives with her family in Doha, Qatar and blogs at Count Only Sunny Hours. You can catch [...]

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Pivotal Moments, Turning Points

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Authors, Turning Points Book, Writing, tagged aspirations, book launch, fear, Jo Parfitt, Kate Cobb, longings, regrets, Turning Points book, writing on November 1, 2011 | 22 Comments »

It’s finally here. Today is Tuesday, November 1st. As I mentioned a couple days ago in And What Might YOUR Turning Point Be?, today also happens to be the global book launch of Turning Points: 25 Inspiring Stories From Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Turned Their Careers and Their Lives Around. The book concept is the [...]

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And What Might YOUR Turning Point Be?

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Authors, Light Bulb Moments, Turning Points Book, Work, Writing, tagged book launch, change, inspiring women, pivotal moment, reinvention, renewal, Turning Points book, women entrepreneurs, writing on October 30, 2011 | 16 Comments »

Ever have one of those days, weeks or even months where you are so busy you can barely see straight? Where you absolutely, positively must keep a note pad near you at all times to capture the overflow of thoughts and reminders sloshing around in your brain? Well, I’ve been having an entire season like that. [...]

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A Love Song for Turkey

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Authors (Other), Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, tagged A Tight Wide-open Space: Finding Love in a Muslim Country, author, culture shock, expat life, living abroad, Matt Krause, writing on October 10, 2011 | 14 Comments »

Recently I had the opportunity to read the latest book by author Matt Krause, a mid-life memoir entitled A Tight Wide-open Space: Finding Love in a Muslim Land (Delridge Press, 2011). Matt was a happily single, well-traveled, successful thirty-something businessman living in Seattle when he encountered a beautiful, intriguing woman on a flight from California to Hong [...]

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When a Friend Fulfills a Widely-Shared Dream

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Authors (Other), Expat Authors, Expat Life, Writing, tagged author, fiction, inspiration, Jo Parfitt, Non-fiction, novel, realizing a dream, Summertime Publishing, Sunshine Soup, writing on October 2, 2011 | 18 Comments »

Each of us harbors a dream, a fiercely held flame of hope and desire that burns quietly yet brightly deep within us. It can be something we’d like to do or see or experience, someone we’ve always wanted to meet, somewhere we really want to visit. Or something we create. Often we hold it as a secret. [...]

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Julia Simens, Expat Author: Writing My Book

Posted in Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Writers on Writing, Writing, tagged Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child, expat, Julia Simens, Non-fiction, Writing a Book on July 24, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Last month, some of you Adventurers may recall that I wrote about Julia Simens’ insightful book Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child. While interviewing Julia I had asked a few questions about how she went about writing her book. As someone in the early throes of trying to write a book, I can tell you that [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part i of Part IV

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Life Balance, tagged 'leave well to enter well', affirmation, David Pollock & Ruth Van Reken, farewell, Julia Simens, RAFT, reconciliation, Simone Costa Eriksson & Ana Serra, think destination, Tina Quick on June 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I was going to share Part IV of the five-part series I wrote on Emotional Resilience in Expat Life, but because it ran a little long, the great folks over at I Am Expat made the good decision to break it into two parts when they published it. So today you get Part i of Part [...]

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Julia Simens: Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child

Posted in Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, tagged child psychology, Doug Ota, Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child, emotions, expats, Gordon Neufeld, Julia Simens, rituals, six stages of attachment on June 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Today I’m interviewing Julia Simens, newly published author of the outstanding book Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: Practical Tips and Storytelling Techniques That Will Strengthen the Global Family.* I’m going to come right out and tell you that I think highly of this book. I believe Julia has written a very important work that will [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part II

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Life Balance, tagged Barbara Schaetti, change, David Pollock, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, emotional resilience, expat, Robin Pascoe, Ruth Van Reken, Tina Quick, transitions on June 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been working on a five-part series on Emotional Resilience in Expat Life, and a couple days ago the second article, on Transitions & Change, was published on I Am Expat. As mentioned previously, emotional resilience is generally defined as being able to deal with and adapt to whatever challenges, setbacks and unpleasant curve balls [...]

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Emotional Resilience in Expat Life: Part I

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Identity, Life Balance, tagged Barbara Schaetti, David Pollock, emotional resilience, expats, identity, Robin Pascoe, Ruth Van Reken, Tina Quick on May 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Well here we go. As mentioned briefly in an earlier post, I’ve been busy working on a five-part series entitled ‘Emotional Resilience in Expat Life.’ The first article, ‘Identity and the Expat’ debuted today on I Am Expat. I’m sharing it with you here on my blog because I believe that emotional resilience is important to [...]

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Writers Abroad (WIN Radio)

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Authors, Expat Life, Writers on Writing, Writing, tagged Jo Parfitt, Niamh Ni Bhroin, WIN, Writers Abroad radio show on May 30, 2011 | 14 Comments »

I’ve written about Jo Parfitt before, but for new adventurers I’d like to share that Jo is a five-time British expat (Oman, Dubai, back to UK, Norway and The Netherlands) who has carved out the most amazing career as what I term a ‘serial entrepreneur extraordinaire’. This is one savvy woman: author (27 books, with her first [...]

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