Finding Your Feet In Chicago
Like many serial expats, especially the “trailing spouse”, it can be hard to keep a professional career going. This month I’m talking…
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What’s In A Name?
As an expectant expat, there’s a lot of thought required when choosing baby names. If you speak the language, but with a…
Read more →Seeing “Home” Through A Different Lens
I wrote in in my last piece that no matter how long you’re an expat, there are things you’ll never quite get…
Read more →Some Things Just Don’t Grow On You
No matter how long you’re an expat, there are certain things that you’ll just never get used to. Having lived in the…
Read more →Schools Abroad – Another Expat Challenge
If there’s one aspect of living abroad that reminds you you’re an expat, it’s the kids’ school. At this time of year…
Read more →The Class System – Alive And Kicking In England
Like something out of Louis XIV’s French court in the 1600’s, where only persons of the highest rank could even sit on…
Read more →Expat packing
Like many expats, when I visit my “homeland” I’m traveling a long way, and staying there for more than the usual week…
Read more →Been A Long Time
This month will mark twenty-two years of living in the States! I can’t really believe it, and yet somehow I still don’t…
Read more →Expat Life Slice By Slice
Toni Hargis interviews Apple Gidley author of "Expat Life Slice By Slice" I have written before about static and serial expats ,…
Read more →Learning The (Non-Verbal) Lingo
For Brits in the States, it’s pretty much accepted that although we all speak English, it’s “not quite the same”. I (and…
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