Each holiday season abroad, I stumble across something new. In Zhuhai it was pole dancing at a company Christmas party, in Cambridge it was a family Panto show filled with […]
In Hong Kong, this is how my son dressed to attend nursery: This was his mandatory uniform for non-gym days. On gym days he wore shorts that reached his arm […]
When I was seven, I lived at The Center of the Universe as a Mormon child in the American West. I lived in Taylorsville, Utah. We rode our bikes to […]
1. Big lawns and kind-hearted eccentrics. Lawns, lawns, soft, runaround-in-bare-feet lawns. Lawns only made better by the addition of purple-bearded “Bubble Man,” an enigmatic staple of Seattle’s Carkeek Park. 2. […]
The accent shift has already begun its swing. Three years ago, within weeks of starting nursery in the UK, my expat kid was already speaking like an “English” girl, in […]
