Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Authors (Other), Blogging, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Authors & Others, Life Balance, Light Bulb Moments, Travel, Writing, tagged A Tight Wide-Open Space, Aegean Sea, author, blogging, books, creativity, culture, epic voyage, expat, Facebook, Heathen Pilgrim, HeathenPilgrim.com, Iran, journey, Kickstarter.com, Kusadasi, Matt Krause, Soapbox, travel, trek, turkey, Twitter, video, writer, writing, writing projects on September 1, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Today is September 1st and I’m sooo excited! Not because it’s the first day of September, although I must say that autumn is my favorite season and I’m very partial to this month. Just a few moments ago, Matt Krause – writer, traveler, former expat and Heathen Pilgrim – took his first steps on his long […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Blogging, Change, Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Exercise & Sports, Expat Authors & Others, Riveting Expat Reads, Travel, Writers on Writing, Writing, tagged A Tight Wide-Open Space: Falling in Love in a Muslim Land, author, blogging, book, books, editing, Heathen Pilgrim, journey, Matt Krause, pilgrimage, self-publishing, Soapbox, turkey, walk across Turkey, walking, writing, writing books on May 28, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It’s been awhile since we last met up with Matt Krause, author of the amazingly beautiful A Tight Wide-Open Space: Falling in Love in a Muslim Land (Delridge Press: 2011), a book I wrote about in A Love Song for Turkey and Author Matt Krause on Writing. As long promised, I wanted to share with you Matt’s insightful thoughts […]
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 Adventures Big & Small, Authors (Other), Creativity, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Authors & Others, Expat Life, Riveting Expat Reads, Writers on Writing, Writing, tagged A Tight Wide-open Space: Finding Love in a Muslim Land, author, book, Delridge Press, Matt Krause, stories, turkey, writing on December 9, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Is it any wonder that writers read and readers often write? We enjoy getting lost between the pages of a book, drawn into the world created by the author. We’re enthralled with the intoxicating power of the written word. One of the best books I had the pleasure of encountering this year was A […]
Posted in Adventures Big & Small, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Expat Life, Family & Friends, Food and Drink, Holidays, Writing, tagged appreciation, giving thanks, gratitude, Squidoo Thanksgiving Magazine, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Deconstructed, turkey, writing on November 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It’s always interesting trying to explain the important holidays of your culture to others. Some carry over easily, such as religious holidays like Christmas, Easter, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah and Ramadan, even if the specific ways in which they are personally celebrated differ a bit from country to country. Many countries recognize various aspects of society on […]
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 Albert Heijn, Culture, Crosscultural, Intercultural & Multicultural, Dutch Life, Expat Life, Food and Drink, Holidays, United States, tagged expat, Food and Drink, Thanksgiving, turkey on November 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you didn’t happen to see it, my last post talked about how we expats can be some serious pumpkin junkies. And while I have solved the pumpkin/pumpkin pie spice dilemma, finding the requisite turkey is an entirely different matter. What I have learned is that I cannot just waltz down to my local Albert Heijn grocery store and pick […]
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