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, Blogging, Change, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Riveting Expat Reads, Writing, tagged author, Bodrum, expat life, gay life, Jack Scott, Jo Parfitt, Perking the Pansies, Summertime Publishing, turkey, writing on January 17, 2012 | 12 Comments »
One of the absolutely best aspects of the internet is the ability to find all kinds of information at your fingertips. Those of you who remember life before the ‘world wide web’ know exactly what I mean; those younger can just roll your eyes and skip the next paragraph. It continually amazes me that you can […]
Posted in Expat Life, Guest Posts, tagged Jack Scott, Perking the Pansies, turkey on August 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Well hello to you on this late August day! When you look out the window on Nederland, you never quite know what you’ll find. Each day is a toss-up as to how it’s going to go. It’s a bit like like women’s fashions: Transitional versus Casual Resort Wear. You might find overcast skies, cooler weather, […]
Posted in Emotional Resilience, Expat Life, Expat Transitions & Change, Expats in Motion, Family & Friends, Netherlands, New to Nederland, Writing, tagged 4 Kids 20 Suitcases and a Beagle, blogging, Gidday from the UK, Isolated Internationals, Note from Lapland, Perking the Pansies, Seven Links Project, wordgeyser on July 18, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I’d been away from Twitter for a few days and was over there checking things out. Suddenly I saw a hot new tweet from my fun friend Jack over at Perking the Pansies. Jack (who retired early and lives in Bodrum, Turkey with life partner and talented new pop music composer Liam) had just tweeted and […]
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