Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Doing What I Can to Help, Expat Life, Global Issues, Guest Posts, Writing, tagged Barack Obama, civil rights activist, democracy, Ethiopia, guest blog, inauguration, jaded, Jijiga, Martin Luther King, momentous, naivete, nostalgia, peaceful transition of power, President of the United States, progress, promise, refugee aid worker, refugees, Somali, Somalia, strength, Tracey Buckenmeyer, UNHCR, writing on January 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this momentous occasion when we observe the strength and inspiration of the peaceful transition of power in a democracy with the inauguration of Barack Obama for his second term as President, and we celebrate the life’s work of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, it is only fitting to share another guest post from Tracey Buckenmeyer. All three […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, Guest Posts, Travel, United States, Writing, tagged Africa, blogging, Ethiopia, geography, gingerbread man, going 'home', guest post, kindergarteners, Kosovo, Ohio, paper cut out, photographs, postal system, postcards, Pristina, refugee children, refugees, Tracey Buckenmeyer, travel, UNHCR, United States, writing on July 14, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Recently, fellow Adventurers were introduced to Tracey Buckenmeyer in her initial guest post here, Tough Neighborhood. Tracey has made a career of helping refugees and displaced persons, working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She’s worked in many different countries, and currently is posted to Ethiopia. She’s returned to tell us a little […]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Doing What I Can to Help, Expat Life, Global Issues, Guest Posts, Light Bulb Moments, tagged aggression, Al Qaeda, Al Shabat, blogging, civil war, Djibouti, drought, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gry Tina Tinda, guest post, homeless, Kenya, referendum, refugees, Republic of South Sudan, Somalia, Sudan, Tracey Buckenmeyer, UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on June 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A couple days ago I shared a bit about my own corner of the world, life on quiet little Ten Hovestraat, in This Little Straat of Mine. Today we’re going to head further south, all the way to Ethiopia, for a guest post from Tracey Buckenmeyer. I ‘cyber met’ Tracey through fellow expat and guest blogger, Gry Tina […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Food and Drink, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, Travel, tagged Erica Knecht, expat life, Expatria Baby, five senses, hearing, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, NSEW, sight, smell, taste, touch on February 20, 2012 | 12 Comments »
NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches It’s time again for our monthly 4-way virtual blog, aka NSEW. Expat bloggers from In Search of a Life Less Ordinary, Expatria Baby, I Was an Expat Wife and here at Adventures in Expat Land get together to write on a theme and then guest post at each others’ sites. Moving abroad […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, tagged Adventures in Expat Land, expat transitions, I Was an Expat Wife, Maria Foley, new beginnings, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, NSEW on January 18, 2012 | 5 Comments »
NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches With 2012 still fresh and new, this month’s NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches examines beginnings from the four corners of the globe: Linda/Yours Truly www.adventuresinexpatland.com in Netherlands is NORTH Russell www.insearchofalifelessordinary.com in Australia is SOUTH Erica www.expatriababy.com in Japan is EAST and Maria www.iwasanexpatwife.com in Canada is WEST. This month finds Erica at I Was an Expat Wife, writing […]
Posted in Expat Life, Guest Posts, Learning Dutch or Other Foreign Languages, tagged axe murder, Gry Tina Tinde, guest post, knife skills, learning a foreign language, Norwegian Ministry of Defense, Russian, writing on November 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When we last left the inimitable guest writer Gry Tina Tinde in Part I: A couple of hours before our rendezvous Mikhail called and said unfortunately something had come up. He would get back in touch. All I could do was wait, as I did not have his number. Months passed, but there was no […]
Posted in Expat Life, Guest Posts, Learning Dutch or Other Foreign Languages, tagged Cambodia, Gry Tina Tinde, guest post, learning a foreign language, New York, Norwegian Ministry of Defense, Russian, Russian Embassy, UN, writing on November 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m excited to share that we have another guest post by the multi-talented Gry Tina Tinde. Many of you remember Tina’s first guest post, the wild and wacky adventures of A Ski Instructor to Die For or more recently her piece On Marriage I Go With Brad Pitt. For anyone just joining us, Tina has spent a lifetime […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, Writing, tagged expat life, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, NSEW, what you can't live without, writing on November 17, 2011 | 9 Comments »
NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches It’s the middle of November so you know what that means: it’s time for our monthly virtual four-way blogfest! North: Yours Truly in The Netherlands (www.adventuresinexpatland.com) South: Russell in Australia (www.insearchofalifelessordinary.com) East: Erica in Japan (www.expatriababy.com) West: Maria in Canada (www.iwasanexpatwife.com) This month’s theme? What is the one item each of us […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Guest Posts, Riveting Expat Reads, 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 […]
Posted in Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Guest Posts, Life Balance, tagged Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Gry Tina Tinde, LGBT, marriage rights, same-sex marriage, UNHCR, writing on October 19, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Today I’m excited to share that we have another guest post by the multi-talented Gry Tina Tinde. (Many of you will recall Tina’s first guest post, the wild and wacky adventures of A Ski Instructor to Die For.) Tina has spent a lifetime working around the globe for the betterment of the human condition. With […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, tagged bravery, courage, expat life, fear, I Was an Expat Wife, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, NSEW, writing on October 13, 2011 | 14 Comments »
NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches We’re back — four intrepid souls who swap guests posts each month from the far corners of the globe. We are: North: Linda (Yours Truly) in the Netherlands (www.adventuresinexpatland.com) South: Russell in Australia (www.insearchofalifelessordinary.com) East: Erica in Japan (www.expatriababy.com) West: Maria in Canada (www.iwasanexpatwife.com) The great philosopher Socrates said that the unexamined […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, tagged Australia, Canada, embarrassing expat moments, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, NSEW, Russell VJ Ward, sauna, Sydney beaches, writing on September 14, 2011 | 24 Comments »
The expat life is one of adventure, discovery, glamour and … bumbling social ineptitude. And so for the September edition of NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, our ongoing guest-post project, our four expat bloggers are divulging their most embarrassing expat moments. Yours Truly of Adventures in Expatland (North) will demonstrate that a small vowel can cause big problems. Russell, who […]
Posted in Expat Life, Guest Posts, tagged Jack Scott, Perking the Pansies, turkey on August 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Well hello to you on this late August day! When you look out the window on Nederland, you never quite know what you’ll find. Each day is a toss-up as to how it’s going to go. It’s a bit like like women’s fashions: Transitional versus Casual Resort Wear. You might find overcast skies, cooler weather, […]
Posted in Expat Life, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, tagged Dubai, expat life, Japan, NorthSouthEastWest, NSEW, Shanghai, souvenirs, Spain on August 16, 2011 | 15 Comments »
NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches Welcome back for another four-way guest post of our virtual blog NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches! We are four bloggers who have joined together to rotate our monthly guest posts from the four corners of the world on each other’s blogs: Yours Truly here at www.adventuresinexpatland.com (North, Netherlands), Russell at www.insearchofalifelessordinary.com (South, Australia), Erica at […]
Posted in Authors (Other), Guest Posts, Work, Writers on Writing, Writing, Writing Business Bits at Jo Parfitt's, tagged authors, book marketing, Book Marketing Conference Online, D'vorah Lansky, Jo Parfitt, Joanna Penn, writing and social media, Writing Business Bits on August 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Hey there. Today I’m over at expat publisher Jo Parfitt’s site in a new feature we’re calling Writing Business Bits. Based on the positive response to my recent three-part guest post about Jack Canfield’s insights on book marketing and promotion, Jo has asked me to contribute a series of monthly posts. Topics will focus on how […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Transitions & Change, Guest Posts, NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches, Repatriation, Travel, tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bordeaux, expat life, love lost, Repatriation, Singapore on July 14, 2011 | 37 Comments »
NorthSouthEastWest: Expat Dispatches Welcome to the inaugural four-way guest posting of NorthSouthEastWest! We are four expat bloggers who have joined together to rotate our monthly guest posts from the four corners of the world on each other’s blogs: Linda (Yours Truly) at Adventuresinexpatland.com (North), Russell at Insearchofalifelessordinary.com (South), Erica at Expatriababy.com (East) and Maria at […]
Posted in Authors (Other), Guest Posts, Work, Writers on Writing, Writing, Writing Business Bits at Jo Parfitt's, tagged author, Benjamin Franklin, bypass marketing, Chicken Soup for the Soul, continual learning, giving, Jack Canfield, Jo Parfitt, Mark Victor Hansen, RTIR, Scott Peck, social media, speaker, Steve Harrison, The Road Less Traveled, writing, Writing Business Bits at Jo Parfitt's on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I was guest posting over at Jo Parfitt’s website again, finishing the last in a three-part series on Steve Harrison’s (of Radio/Television Interview Report) interview with mega-selling author and co-founder of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise, Jack Canfield. I enjoy listening to such ‘webinars’ (web seminars) to glean the nuggets of wisdom, experience, […]
Posted in Authors (Other), Guest Posts, Work, Writers on Writing, Writing, Writing Business Bits at Jo Parfitt's, tagged author, Bob Burg, Chicken Soup for the Soul, giving, Jack Canfield, Jo Parfitt, John David Mann, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Victor Hansen, network, RTIR, speaker, Steve Harrison, The Go Giver, The Tipping Point, writing on June 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The other day Jo Parfitt ran the second of my guest posts in a three-part series about ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ co-founder/business mogul Jack Canfield. The series is based on a recent webinar interview of Canfield by Steve Harrison of the Radio & TV Interview Report. In addition to co-authoring more than 200 titles […]
Posted in Authors (Other), Guest Posts, Work, Writers on Writing, Writing, Writing Business Bits at Jo Parfitt's, tagged author, bestsellers, Chicken Soup of the Soul, Jack Canfield, Jo Parfitt, Mark Victor Hansen, NY Times bestsellers list, RTIR, speaker, Steve Harrison, Wesley Clark, writing on June 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
For a little change of pace, we’re going to do something different today. I’m over at Jo Parfitt’s blog with the first of a three-part guest post Getting to Where You Want to Be, Part I. I recently listened to an insightful webinar interview with Jack Canfield, co-founder of the immensely popular ‘Chicken Soup of […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Guest Posts, United States, tagged black diamond slopes, chair lift, Gry Tina Tinde, ski instructor, skiing, Snowbowl, Stein Eriksen on May 13, 2011 | 8 Comments »
It’s Friday morning and the sun is shining. Like you, I’ve got a busy day planned. The weekend looms. But first, I’ve got something special in mind for you. Today we have a guest post, but with a bit of a twist. The writer isn’t a blogger. Yet. (I keep telling her it’s only a matter of time.) Gry Tina Tinde […]
