Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Creativity, Emotional Resilience, Expat Transitions & Change, Light Bulb Moments, tagged achieving goals, achieving results, big picture, bird's eye view, brave, Brene Brown, courageous, curious, daring greatly, dream big, effort, focus, inquisitive, life lessons, meeting challenges, minutest of details, peanut butter jar, personal growth, professional development, recycling, resilience, singleness of purpose, squirrel, Squirrel Apocalypse, stay the course, strength, tenacity, time, vampires, walking dead, work, zombies on February 6, 2014 | 3 Comments »
A couple weeks ago, I was walking past our dining room window when something caught my eye. In the front yard was a squirrel. No news flash there as we live surrounded on several sides by woods. Squirrels and deer are regular visitors, along with the occasional raccoon, spotted owl and annoying woodpecker. But this […]
Posted in Albert Heijn, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Netherlands, Travel, United States, Writing, tagged attention, chatting, conversation, despair, dinner, expat, expat life, family, family crises, focus, friends, friendship, grief, loneliness, marriage, medical problems, missed signals, neighborhood, neighbors, newly arrived, pain, promise of friendship, separation, Southeast Asia, The Hague, The Netherlands, time, travelling, trips, welcome on February 7, 2013 | 14 Comments »
I first met Tamara 14 months ago on the sidewalk in front of our neighbor’s house. It was a cold, late Sunday afternoon in December, the air heavy with moisture off the frigid North Sea. The weak sun had managed to emerge briefly from behind large swaths of gun metal gray clouds. Husband and I had just left the house to […]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Learning Dutch or Other Foreign Languages, Light Bulb Moments, Writing, tagged bilingualism, brain, cognitive muscles, executive function, focus, monolingualism, resolve internal conflict, social media, switching among languages, Telegraph, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee on May 19, 2012 | 10 Comments »
As a writer and blogger, I would be the first to tell you how important social media is in getting your work out there, sharing it and finding kindred souls who find something of value in your words. That value may be information, inspiration or entertainment. If you’re really fortunate, occasionally you win what I call the Writer’s […]
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