Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Family & Friends, Holidays, Life Balance, Our Animals, Writing, tagged Adventures in Expat Land, blogging, expat blogging, family, forgetfulness, holiday celebration, house guests, illness, life, longtime friends, malware infestation, replacement laptop, stress, Thanksgiving, the dog ate my homework, the good the bad and the ugly, worry, writing on December 4, 2013 | 17 Comments »
It’s been so long since my last post, I feel as though we ought to get reacquainted. Let me introduce myself, my name is Linda and once upon a time I wrote an expat blog in which I posted regularly. You might have heard of it – Adventures in Expat Land? Seriously, I can’t blame […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Family & Friends, Forced to Fly (2nd ed.) Book, Identity, Repatriation, Riveting Expat Reads, Travel, Writing, tagged Adventures in Expat Land, Apple Gidley, Bitten by Spain, creativity, culture clash, culture shock, Deborah Fletcher, emotional resilience, empathy, Expat Apple, expat life, expat transitions, Forced to Fly, Forced to Fly: An Anthology of Writing That Will Make You See the Funny Side of Living Abroad, funny stories, going abroad, humor, I Was an Expat Wife, identity, innovation, Jack Scott, Jo Parfitt, laughter, Linda A Janssen, living abroad, living overseas, Maria Foley, Niamh Ni Bhroin, Perking the Pansies, Repatriation, Riveting Expat Reads, Robin Pascoe, Summertime Publishing, The Singing Warrior, travel, wordgeyser on October 5, 2012 | 10 Comments »
It is an exciting day here in Expat Land: we’re madly flapping our wings for take-off, determined to catch the wind currents, achieve flight and soar. ‘What’s with the flight metaphors?’ you ask. ‘They’re flying left and right.’ Heh heh. Today marks the book launch of the second edition of Forced to Fly: An Anthology of Writings That Will Make […]
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 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 […]
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