What’s fun about expat life is seeing things. The little, ordinary things that are not ordinary to you, or that for some reason catch your foreign eye. Here’s what caught …
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January 2018
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Once upon a time in a far away tropical country, in the early beginnings of my expat life, I baked a simple cake–a light, lovely, lemony cake. But baking a …
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Are you an expat or a globetrotter? Don’t you just love quotations about living abroad? Ernest Hemingway had a certain view, but perhaps not one all of us might share. …
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My friend Olivia brought me two bags of green split peas from Dubai. Green pearls! It might seem odd that while visiting the most luxurious and decadent shopping emporiums in …
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Life Abroad: Of Red Undies, Sugary Pigs, and Freezing Waters
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan Happy New Year! I gathered …