Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Family & Friends, Identity, Re-entry Reality, Repatriation, United States, tagged all over the world, around the globe, art, change, cultures, decorating, drawings, expat life, experiences, family, growing old together, home, icons, lifetime, marriage, memories, paintings, parenthood, pictures, prints, Repatriation, sculpture, statues, travel, values on November 7, 2013 | 8 Comments »
As mentioned in Under Construction, I hope you’ll join me as I navigate the re-entry stage in our repatriation journey. Every three months I’ll share a series of ‘snapshot’ blog posts about the particulars of building a new life from scratch, filed under the post category Re-entry Reality. I’ll look at everything from making a home, engaging socially, staying […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats A to Z, Repatriation, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Expat Teens, Travel, tagged aware, caring, change, considerate, cross-cultural, culture shock, cultures, definitions, expat, expat transitions, expatriate, Expats A to Z, fits us to a T, global living, heedful, helping others along the way, intercultural, kind, living abroad, meanings, meditative, nomadic life, reasoned, reflective, Repatriation, TCKs, Third Culture Kids, thoughtful, traveling on December 4, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Earlier this year I introduced Expats A to Z, a new series of posts about the little things that can make a difference in how we approach some of the challenges and experiences of expat life. I’m talking about those qualities and traits that we can nurture within us not only to simply survive but thrive […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Identity, Repatriation, Riveting Expat Reads, Sandwich Generation, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Expat Teens, Travel, Work, Writing, tagged Apple Gidley, blogging, continents, culture shock, cultures, expat books, expat life, Expat Life: Slice by Slice, expatriate life, expatriation, global living, globalization, languages, living abroad, living cross-culturally, living overseas, memoir, post-colonization, Repatriation, Riveting Expat Reads, TCKs, technology, Third Culture Kids, transition, travel, writing on November 29, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Time again for another Riveting Expat Read in which I shine the spotlight on a new (or new to me) book in this varied and rapidly growing niche. There has been a slow but steadily expanding upsurge in books written by and for expats/global nomads/TCKs which examine life lived cross-culturally, and we are all the richer […]
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, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Riveting Expat Reads, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Expat Teens, Travel, Writing, tagged adult TCK, ATCK, blogging, Burma, Colombia, crosscultural, cultures, David C. Pollock, expat, Expat Alien, expatriate, Families in Global Transition, Ford Foundation, global nomad, Global Nomads International, intercultural, international organization, Kathleen Gamble, Mexico, multicultural, Norma McCaig, Russia, Ruth Van Reken, Switzerland, TCK, Third Culture Kid, Third Culture Kids:Growing Up Among Worlds, United States, writing on August 17, 2012 | 20 Comments »
Last week I was away spending some well deserved time alone with Husband, Son and Daughter. After the hectic and emotionally draining summer we’ve had, it was nice to enjoy the sun, surf and sand on Captiva Island in southern Florida. It was good for us to reconnect as a family, relaxing individually and collectively as one day […]
Posted in Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats A to Z, Writing, tagged acceptance, acknowledge differences, anger, Anne Lamott, bigger picture, Bird by Bird, change model, cross-cultural living, cultures, denial, depression, different isn't better or worse, expat transitions, Expats A to Z, mosaic, snapshots, writing, Writing a Book on May 22, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Lately I’ve been busy working on my book about the importance of emotional resilience in expat life. I won’t kid you: it’s been, well, challenging to try to cover the full range of issues I believe are important, and to address them in a fitting manner. Especially when real life continually intervenes. Sheesh, what’s up with that? Still, I’m […]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Identity, tagged awkward, Borat, cultures, embarrassment, identity, International Day, Kazakhstan, misconceptions, national pride, preconceived notions, Sacha Baron Cohen on March 13, 2012 | 12 Comments »
The other evening Daughter and I were sitting in the family room, just relaxing together. I was reading a historical mystery written by a friend (more on that in another post) while Daughter was catching up on Facebook. ‘Wow, sometimes Kaia can really go off on a rant,’ she said, turning to me. ‘But you […]
Posted in Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, tagged adages, Benjamin Franklin, cultures, famous quotations, Mark Twain, proverbs, sayings on April 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Recently I was privy to a discussion among expats about adages and sage proverbs from various countries around the world. Well-worn cultural wisdom, if you will. Those sayings we all hear from our parents and grandparents, or are so steeped in earnestness and simple truth that they become part of each culture’s psyche. It got […]
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