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Oli’s Earth Day

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Doing What I Can to Help, Exercise & Sports, The Animals, tagged A Billion Acts of Green®, advocacy, biodiversity, cairn terrier, conservation, dog, Earth Day, Earth Day 2012, EarthDay.org, energy efficiency, energy renewal, environment, greenery, hiking, Mobilize the Earth™, natural resources, Oli, parkland, recycling, sustainable development, transportation, walking, waste reduction, woodland on April 23, 2012 | 6 Comments »

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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Stigma-Smashing, One by One

Posted in Blogging, Change, Doing What I Can to Help, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Identity, Repatriation, United States, Writing, tagged 2011 Global Relocation Trends Survey, anxiety, BringChange2Mind, celebrities, Chestnut Global Partners, Deborah Serani, depression, Expat Info Desk, Expatlogue, expats, mental health, mental illness, Michele Rubin, pain, PRWeb, Psychology Today, risk of mental illness, stigma, stress, suffering, The Truman Group, vulnerable on April 3, 2012 | 11 Comments »

In support of an effort by the group Bring Change 2 Mind to erase the stigma faced by those dealing with mental illness, my fellow expat blogger Aisha launched an ongoing series of posts on her site Expatlogue earlier this year entitled ’Breaking the Code of Silence’. Bravely sharing her own disturbing memories from younger days, the pain and suffering [...]

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Alice Update: A New Charity Helping Others

Posted in Blogging, Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, Life Balance, tagged Alice Pyne, Alice's Escapes, bone cancer, bone marrow donorship, Bucket List, Cumbria, Luke Tillen, terminally ill, THHN, War Horse on March 18, 2012 | 8 Comments »

Adventurers who’ve been following along for quite some time will recall the story of Alice Pyne, the English teen with terminal bone cancer who is inspiring others with her story and her Bucket List. [For newer readers, if you're interested you can have a look at series to date - A Teen's Bucket List, Teen Bucket List Update, [...]

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IWD Theme Confusion

Posted in Blogging, Change, Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, Life Balance, tagged disease, education, illness, International Women's Day, poverty, theme confusion, underemployment, unemployment, United Nations, violence against women on March 8, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Today is International Women’s Day. It’s an officially recognized day (March 8th) trumpeting the economic, political and social achievements of women. When I went to check to see what the actual theme is for 2012, little did I know what I was getting into. Confusion abounds. Here I was thinking that whoever the original group was [...]

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Marrying Work, Art and Issues for Change

Posted in Authors (Other), Change, Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, tagged A Walk Across the Sun, action, change agent, Corban Addison, human condition, human trafficking, International Justice Mission, John Grisham, pain, slavery, suffering, victims on January 11, 2012 | 6 Comments »

When I sat down to write this morning, I was all set to tell a different story. That is, until I saw this video. It’s a short trailer of Corban Addison discussing his new book A Walk Across the Sun. Set primarily in India, Addison’s novel addresses the issue of human trafficking. The plot centers [...]

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Considering the Girl Effect

Posted in Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, tagged education, forced marriage, Girl Effect, GirlEffect.org, health, improving quality of life, Nike Foundation, social investment, social media, writing on October 5, 2011 | 12 Comments »

I tend to read a whole host of websites and blogs around the world on a wide range of topics: news, expat life, global issues, international development, writing, marketing,  business and more. I also operate in a number of social media venues. Well, I woke up today and found tweets, messages and no fewer than four [...]

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When Emotional Resilience Is Running Low

Posted in Doing What I Can to Help, Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Global Issues, tagged change, depression, emotional resilience, expat life, living abroad, loss, Mayo Clinic, sadness, transitions, WebMD, writing on September 29, 2011 | 16 Comments »

During the summer I was approached by an editor at a new site, AdaptingAbroad.com, to write two companion articles on expats and emotional resilience. The first article was to focus on what expats may risk if they find themselves lacking in emotional resilience.* I agreed, and found the experience particularly stimulating because I tend to write from [...]

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Silence is Shameful (Luke Dowler & IJM)

Posted in Change, Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, Writing, tagged human trafficking, International Justice Mission, Luke Dowler, Silence is Shameful, slavery on August 27, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Yesterday I was sent a Twitter message from Luke Dowler saying he hoped I’d take a look at this video on human trafficking. What I saw blew me away. Luke is a talented musician from Montana; he’s played in variety of musical genre (folk, rock, ska) in places as diverse as Japan, the California coast and Washington, DC. In the [...]

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A Different Kind of Expat: The Aid Worker

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Doing What I Can to Help, Emotional Resilience, Expat Transitions & Change, Global Issues, tagged emotional resilience, Expat Backup, international aid worker, Liberia, Senegal on August 17, 2011 | 8 Comments »

One of the greatest gifts I’ve received from my writing is experiencing the connection that can be forged between two people based entirely on the words that they write. It never ceases to amaze me. Several weeks ago I received an email from Elie over at Expat Backup. Her tagline is ‘aid workers need assistance, [...]

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Checking in on Alice Pyne

Posted in Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, tagged Alice Pyne, bone marrow cancer, bone marrow registry, Make a Wish Foundation, Teen Bucket List on August 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Longtime Adventurers will recall when we first learned about Alice Pyne in A Teen’s Bucket List. Alice is a 15 year old English teen dealing with terminal bone cancer. She’s on a quest to get everyone to sign up for the bone marrow registry to help others like her. (If you’re new to Alice’s story, you may [...]

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Somalian Sorrows

Posted in Change, Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, Light Bulb Moments, Writing, tagged charity, donations, humanitarian crisis, severe drought, Somalia, UNHCR on July 10, 2011 | 9 Comments »

As many of you fellow adventurers know, I like to write on a variety of topics. Often they will be about expat issues, or some aspect about living overseas. Other times they will be about human nature, personal challenges, self-improvement. Or perhaps about something going on in this global world we call home. Sometimes, as is the [...]

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Hey Alice! Good Works Are Spreading Thanks to You!

Posted in Doing What I Can to Help, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Global Issues, Life Balance, Netherlands, tagged Alice's Bucket List, gratitude, Make a Wish Foundation, National Marrow Donor Program Registry on June 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Okay, I’m trying not to cry while I type this, but it’s hard. My bottom lip is quivering, and tears are welling in my eyes. I can’t even talk to myself as I often do when I write because there’s a catch in my voice that will put me over the edge into a full-blown [...]

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‘One is Too Many’

Posted in Doing What I Can to Help, Expat Life, Global Issues, tagged Angelina Jolie, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, refugees, UNHCR, World Refugee Day, World War II on June 20, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Today is World Refugee Day. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, the international refugee agency), there are 43.7 million displaced persons in the world. Forty four million, when you round up. Forty four million people who aren’t living in their homes because of war, violence, famine or other natural disasters. UNHCR was founded 60 [...]

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A Teen’s Bucket List – Update 1

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Doing What I Can to Help, Global Issues, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Netherlands, United States, tagged Alice's Bucket List, AOL, David Cameron, marrow donor, organ donor, registry, The Huffington Post on June 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »

I wanted to share that there’s been some good news on the Alice front. (The original story ‘A Teen’s Bucket List’ is here.) The social media response has been amazing. The story has literally gone viral, and the family reports that they’ve been overwhelmed with emails, etc. I received an email response from a family [...]

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A Teen’s Bucket List

Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Doing What I Can to Help, Expat Life, Global Issues, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, tagged Alice's Bucket List, Anthony Nolan Trust, contribute, donate, Make a Wish Foundation, National Marrow Donor Registry network, terminal cancer, volunteer on June 8, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Yes, you read that correctly. Please don’t click on to the next post, or check your email, Twitter or Facebook accounts. Or fiddle with the television remote. Don’t pretend you have more pressing matters. I hope you won’t go get a cup of coffee, or decide to pay your bills online. And if you’re thinking about [...]

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Human Trafficking: The Ugly Truths

Posted in Change, Doing What I Can to Help, Expat Life, Global Issues, Light Bulb Moments, Writing, tagged abuse, human trafficking, I Am Expat, trafficking in people on April 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Today calls for a little change of pace, in that I’d like to share some thoughts on a serious subject. No, that’s not necessarily the change of pace I’m referring to, since I’ve been, umm, known to write a serious post or two here. What’s different about today’s post is that it is not about a pleasant [...]

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