Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Emotional Resilience, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Family & Friends, Life Balance, Netherlands, Sandwich Generation, Travel, United States, Writing, tagged author, blog, blogging, book, building a new life, career change, editor, fiction, home base, Jane Dean, Jo Parfitt, layout design, leaving, Lemonberry, Lisa Hall, Netherlands, publication, Repatriation, Ruth Van Reken, Summertime Publishing, transitions, US, writing on June 18, 2013 | 42 Comments »
I’ve often wondered what I would say in a post like this. I’ve played it out in my mind before, I just never thought I’d be writing this now. You see, it’s time for that kind of post. Not the kind where you tell everyone you’re moving on to another expatriate experience, although there were a […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Albert Heijn, Change, Expat Life, Writing, tagged blog, conversation, head-banging, panic, post daily, Ultimate Blog Challenge, write daily on April 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I must say that we bloggers are an odd tribe. In a perfect world we would sit down each day in our pristine, calming sanctuary of an office. We would write for 17 minutes, turning out a perfectly polished piece that accurately captures the nuances of some aspect of (at least in my case) expat […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Exercise & Sports, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Learning Dutch or Other Foreign Languages, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Work, Writing, tagged articles, blog, exercise, health, learning Dutch, New Year's Resolutions, organized, published, working, writing on January 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It’s nice to be back after a short break that, while busy, was enjoyable, interesting, rejuvenating and restorative. I’ll share more about that in an upcoming post. As readers who follow earlier posts of mine will know, I’m big on reflection and New Year’s resolutions. In fact, the posts The Write Lesson Learned and Letting Go and then Most […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Expat Life, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Writing, tagged articles, blog, change, Most alive, published, writing on December 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, the prompt (from Ali Edwards) for day 3 of the Reverb10 challenge was a doozy: Describe in vivid detail the one moment in 2010 when you felt most alive. I found it so challenging that I didn’t post yesterday. I was still pondering my response. Most alive. That’s a pretty tall order, because as […]
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