by Tracey | May 29, 2024 | British in the USA, citizenship, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Homesickness, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home
If you spent a few decades putting down roots away from your birthplace, as I did, chances are good you planted your children in foreign soil. Well, foreign to you. Home to them. When they are young, you can bounce them between transatlantic grandparents and cousins...
by Exmoor1 | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog Post, book promotion, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, search for home, Travel, writer, writing
Mission: Identify twelve search keywords that would lead others to find you online. Go. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Am waiting… Okay, two keywords. Can you come up with two? I know, right? It’s really hard. But that’s what I have to do as part of a website redesign project...
by Exmoor1 | Sep 30, 2022 | Blog Post, British, Exmoor, Expatriots, hiraeth, Homesickness, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, search for home, Travel
It’s been two and a half years since I’ve been on a plane. That’s the longest I’ve spent with both feet on the ground since I was a teenager. Just when I’m wondering if I’ll ever again experience the joy of a good ol’ kneecapping from someone else’s wheeled...
by Exmoor1 | Aug 31, 2022 | Anglophiles, Exmoor, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Travel
I’ve experienced the concept of ‘home’ in so many varied ways recently I’m starting to think my ‘Write Home’ brand may be taking over my life. Not in the ‘writing a new novel every six months’ kind of way; more in the ‘Will I ever finish a novel again because,...
by Exmoor1 | May 31, 2022 | Anglophiles, British, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, citizenship, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Homesickness, Humour, immigrants, immigration, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, Travel
Today is the second anniversary of my leaving the United States for the last time to return home to England. I’ll be spending the day, in fact the whole week, excitedly preparing for my neighbourhood Jubilee party. For those of you living under a rock, the British...
by Exmoor1 | Oct 31, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Travel
View from the bathroom: Title of a book? Podcast? Punk band tour? Horror film? Maybe not. Hardly catchy or warm and fuzzy or exciting. But this week, now all the boxes have been moved into my new home, ‘view from the bathroom’ is my favourite phrase. I had to make it...
