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For author Lana Penrose, expat “curveballs” come in threes
Today we welcome back best-selling Australian author Lana Penrose, who last visited us in December to commiserate with those who were spending the holidays separated from their dearest and no longer...
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Getting carried away with author Lisa Egle on a magic carpet, or is it a...
Back in the days when my nieces were small—and I’d just repatriated to the United States after quite a few years abroad—I got to know them again through long bouts of playing make-believe at my...
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Meet author Rosie Whitehouse, who trailed her spouse into a war zone (and...
One of the expressions I picked up from living in England for many years is “Keep the home fires burning.” For some reason, that expression, along with the WWI song from which it comes, is running...
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Don Quixote & Sancho, John Steinbeck & Charley…Olga & George? A travelogue...
When I first stumbled across Olga Vannucci’s memoir, Travels with George, I wondered whether the title alluded to John Steinbeck’s book Travels with Charley, about his road trip across America in the...
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Mark Hillary delivers reality check to gringos who moan about Brazil, in...
In Part 1 of my interview with Mark Hillary, a fellow Brit and amigo in São Paulo, we learned about what spurred him to write a book called Reality Check: Life in BRAZIL through the eyes of a...
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Trevi Fountain blesses American woman’s coins, granting her true love, a new...
While an expat in Japan, I mastered the ritual of tossing coins into the offering box, or saisenbako, at the Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple while clapping twice (to attract divine attention) and then...
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This expat arrived in the tropics without any saucepans—but then cooked up a...
My guest today, the author Lindsay de Feliz, was scuba diving in the Maldives when one night she found herself on a tiny island in the middle of the Indian Ocean gazing up at the stars, the warm water...
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Does an expat life in Los Angeles ever go according to script? Read Tim...
For many of us, the calling to the expat life is not really a calling at all, but more of a vague (albeit rather deep-seated) need to escape our surroundings in search of adventure. We have no idea of...
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Live your life, take chances—raise alpacas? A curious expat tale that has...
The most amazing thing about the expat memoir penned by my guest today, Alan Parks, is not simply its title, though Seriously Mum, What’s an Alpaca? is quite a doozy. It’s not even the zaniness of the...
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Some funny things happened on the way to paradise, as recorded in this...
Before introducing today’s guest, Margot Page, I’d like to make one thing clear. When I first read of her decision to uproot herself, her husband and three young kids from their comfortable life in...
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In this novel of displacement, water shapes the land, the country and...
My guest today, Ruth Hartley, is a writer and an artist—but from the point of view of the Displaced Nation, she is something else as well: an expert on displacement. Ruth has lived a life of...
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A valentine to displaced creatives: Let a thousand friendships flourish!
In my nearly four years of managing the Displaced Nation, I’ve had about as many face-to-face meet-ups with the creatives I’ve “met” on this site. Let me see…the last one was was about eight months...
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Ten years after “Expat Harem,” foreign women will have another say on expat...
When the Displaced Nation first started, Anastasia Ashman, an American living in Istanbul, was running a blog tailored to the needs of the “thinking expat.” It seemed almost too good to be true: a...
View ArticleEXPAT AUTHOR GAME: Lisa Morrow’s algorithm for “Waiting for the Tulips to...
This month I am delighted to welcome Lisa Morrow to the Displaced Nation as the very first guest in our new author interview series, which, in my inimitable style, I’ve devised as a kind of game expat...
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Readers, I’m happy to report that Lisa Morrow aced the algorithm test for her latest book, Waiting for the Tulips to Bloom: Adrift in Istanbul, and will therefore be advancing to the second half of the...
View ArticleEXPAT AUTHOR GAME: Paul Shore’s algorithm for “Uncorked: My year in Provence...
Hello, Displaced Nationers. When I introduced our Expat Author Game series last October, I had no idea it would take until June to play another round. I have no excuse except to say the Game of Life...
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Readers, I’m happy to report that Paul Shore passed the algorithm test for his memoir, Uncorked, with flying colors. He will therefore be throwing out the jack (so to speak) for the second round of the...
View ArticleEXPAT AUTHOR GAME: Chandi Wyant’s algorithm for “Return to Glow: A Pilgrimage...
Hello, Displaced Nationers—or should I say ciao in honor of our special guest, Chandi Wyant, player number three in our Expat Author Game? Born in California, Chandi has lived in Qatar, India, Italy,...
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Readers, I’m happy to report that Chandi Wyant came up with a winning algorithm for her new memoir, Return to Glow: A Pilgrimage of Transformation in Italy. She is therefore proceeding to the second...
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