Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Life Balance, Travel, Work, Writing, tagged adventures, ATCK, blogging, creativity, cross-cultural, culture, expat, extended holidays, family, formative years, friendship, global, gratitude, high school reunion, international, international high school, Italy, rejuvenation, repatriate, Rome, TCK, travel, wanderlust, writing on July 17, 2014 | 1 Comment »
When summertime beckons, many of us find ourselves pondering the annual question: home or away? Whether it’s a long-planned holiday far afield, camping in a field (aka caravaning), day trips in the general vicinity, a picnic in a bucolic setting, or simply a barbeque in the backyard, it’s the season we want to be doing something different. So […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Travel, Writing, tagged adventures, blogging, both sides of the coin, candor, connections, cultures, expat, expat blogs, expat life, expatriate life, experience, extrovert, friendship, honesty, In Search of a Life Less Ordinary, learning, London, perspective, positives and negatives, pros and cons, Queen Elizabeth, reality, relationships, Russell Ward, upside and downside, Westminster Abbey on November 23, 2012 | 33 Comments »
It happened again. A little more than a week ago I was over at a friend’s blog, reading a post that got me thinking. The good ones always do. They intrigue and inspire, prod and provoke, query and occasionally even quarrel. A sign of a good post? For me, it’s the ones that stay on […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Catarina Chronicles, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, tagged adventures, funny, giggles, humor, humorous anecdotes, jokes, knock knock jokes, laughter, Malta, smile on March 1, 2012 | 22 Comments »
You know what I realized yesterday? Humor is funny. Really funny. Let me rephrase that. I’m not talking about dark humor, sick humor, mean-spirited at the expense of someone else humor. I’m referring to your all-purpose humor. The good kind that makes you smile or giggle or even laugh out loud. It feels good. Humor has […]
Posted in Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Dutch Life, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Netherlands, Oddities + Odds & Ends, tagged adventures, bicycles, Netherlands, riding bikes, tricked out bikes on February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One more! Okay, I realize that this technically is NOT a bicycle, but you have to admit folks do things with style here! (If you’re confused by this photo, check out my previous post here.)
my read shelf:
