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Expat No Longer
Up to this point, my traveller’s life has involved ping-ponging across the Atlantic ‒ except for a few southerly dips to places like New...
It Takes More Than a Cheap Ticket
I recently heard a fellow expat say they couldn’t afford to renew their passport; therefore, they couldn’t go home for a family funeral....
Traveling and Settling
If you’ve been with me long, you know I love to travel ‒ to places both familiar and new. But you’ll also know I struggle to settle...
Dinosaur Christmases and Hireth
As an expat, it’s typical to feel hireth during the holidays. But what exactly am I homesick for? Do I even remember? Am I missing my...
… The Other is Wings
My children are comfortable on planes. They’ve flown—literally and figuratively—from infants to pre-schoolers to teenagers to young...
Changed, But the Same
Old friends are like favourite books. You can read them over and over again and never get bored with the plot or the characters. When you...
My Foreign Native Language
I enjoy discovering new words (well, new to me), especially those evocative of home or homesickness. Hireth and coddiwomple are two...
Final Boarding Call
I recently got that awful phone call: my father had passed away, four thousand miles from where I stood. The news was a shock, though not...
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