Two confessions up front. First, credit where credit is due. A comment about my post on Bridge-Building in the city of Peace and Justice, left by fellow expat and talented writer/blogger Russell VJ Ward*, served as the impetus for this plea post. Second, I am a self-confessed policy wonk and international affairs junkie. I’ve studied it, worked [...]
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Politics, Near and Far
Posted in Blogging, Change, Culture & Customs, Dutch Life, Expat Life, Global Issues, Netherlands, United States, Writing, tagged austerity measures, blogging, cultural issues, differences, Dutch politics, economic issues, elections, Euro, gay marriage, global issues, global recession, governments, human trafficking, international affairs, local politics, Netherlands, policy wonk, political issues, refugees, similarities, United States, writing on May 10, 2012 | 22 Comments »
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 [...]
Spring Cleaning? Grab Your Bucket
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Expat Life, Life Balance, Writing, tagged bucket, columnist, Expat Focus, monthly column, priorities, spring cleaning, writing on March 28, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Lately there’s been a fair amount of change going on behind the scenes here at Adventures in Expat Land, and it dawned on me that I ought to share some of it with you. Like you, I lead a fairly busy life. One that’s full of family, work projects, friends, activities and interests. Add to [...]
Versatile? I’d Like to Think So
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Writing, tagged blogging, expat blogs, Expatlogue, fellow bloggers, unexpected traveller, Versatile Blogger Award, writing on February 12, 2012 | 26 Comments »
Imagine my surprise when I learned that I’d been the recipient of the ’Versatile Blogger Award,’ bestowed upon me not once but twice (!) this past week from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Many thanks to the talented duo Expatlogue in Canada and Unexpected Traveller in Belgium. No, you don’t receive a vast sum of money or a [...]
An Unexpected Change in Plans
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Holidays, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Netherlands, United States, Writing, tagged brain surgery, brain tumor, Carolina pines, chemotherapy, Christmas, family, friendship, loved ones, planting a seed, radiation, writing on December 24, 2011 | 19 Comments »
It’s Christmas Eve day. The aroma of my Jamie Oliver-inspired gravy wafts gently throughout rooms regaled in ornaments, decorations, pine boughs and tiny lights. Another half hour and I’ll start lighting some candles. Carols are playing softly in the background while Daughter and Husband work diligently on a holiday puzzle. But this is not the [...]
Thanksgiving Gratitude
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture & Customs, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Food and Drink, Holidays, Writing, tagged appreciation, giving thanks, gratitude, Squidoo Thanksgiving Magazine, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Deconstructed, turkey, writing on November 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It’s always interesting trying to explain the important holidays of your culture to others. Some carry over easily, such as religious holidays like Christmas, Easter, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah and Ramadan, even if the specific ways in which they are personally celebrated differ a bit from country to country. Many countries recognize various aspects of society on [...]
Adventures in Birthday Land
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Writing, tagged Adventures in Expat Land, birthday, expat blog, living overseas, one year old, writing on November 21, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Ahh, birthdays. Such an important and loaded rite of passage, full of reflection on the year that has passed and promise for the one to come. When we’re younger, we look forward to birthdays with all the joy and wonder of a child’s perspective. We count down the days, dropping a sly hint or three [...]
My Paper Heart
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 [...]
Writing for the Collective Good
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Netherlands, Writing, tagged editing, expat life, Expatcalidocious, international community, Jo Parfitt, monthly newspaper, Simone Branson Harper, The Hague, The Underground, wordgeyser, writing on November 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »
‘The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley’ Poet Robert Burns’ famous quote basically means that even the best laid plans can head south, go awry, fall to pieces. Recently I’ve been reminded of this sage advice. While (almost) nothing goes on my schedule that I don’t agree to, I do not completely control [...]
The Virtual Book Tour Continues
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Albert Heijn, Turning Points Book, Writing, tagged Turning Points book, virtual book tour, writing on November 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The virtual book tour continues, with four more stops at great blogs around the world: Blogging and Beyond Gidday from the UK (England) Twitter Unites Across the Great Divide Faraway Hammer (Korea) All the Different Stories I Was an Expat Wife (Canada) A World of Women, A Wealth of Perspectives Expatcalidocious (Netherlands) There has [...]
Initial Days of Turning Points Virtual Book Tour
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Travel, Turning Points Book, Writing, tagged Amazon #1, bestseller, guest blogging, Turning Points book, virtual book tour, writing on November 5, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Hi all. It sure has been a busy week! As most of you know, the book launched on Tuesday, November 1st. After a frenzied climb, it finally hit #1 on Amazon’s Books Bestsellers List for the Women & Business category, which is no small feat. In fact, it’s a huge whopping big deal! Turning Points also peaked [...]
Bearing Witness
Posted in Albert Heijn, Expat Life, Light Bulb Moments, Writing, tagged Balkans conflict, Bosnia, crimes against humanity, Croatia, Doctors Without Borders, ICTY, rape, The Hague, torture, UN, war crimes, writing on September 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This past weekend I had the opportunity to meet a fellow American for koffie at a local cafe. We were enjoying a gorgeous Indian summer spell of warm, sunny weather. It seemed as though everyone in The Hague had decided to reorder their day so that they could spend their time outside, soaking up the [...]
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