The Smart Expat

Expat Focus asked me to write about expat children this month.  I thought that rather than make it a general article about bringing up kids in an expat environment, I’d make it very personal and talk about the ways in which I think expat life has shaped my children.  If you’d like to know more [...]

Its been a busy month and I’m afraid my already erratic blogging schedule has suffered.  I’ll be writing about some of the things that I’ve been working on over the coming weeks but today I’m going to talk about identity which is the topic for Friday’s Expat Partner Online Coffee. When the psycholog

When you become an expat and particularly an accompanying partner, the rug is pulled out from under your feet in terms of all of your familiar forms of support.  It happens at a time when you are dealing with multiple new challenges and could probably use a bit of EXTRA support.  This month at Expat

You’ll remember that back in January,  Louise Wiles and I had the opportunity to participate in a conversation among accompanying partners hosted by the Global Niche.  A common theme that we took away from the very open, honest and sometimes raw dialogue between women from diverse cultures and backg

One of the unequivocal benefits of being an expat is having had the opportunity to cross paths with a multitude of women whom I would never otherwise have met.  Each has touched my life in her own way and all of them have enriched my life in different ways.  I am still in touch with [...]

Thanks for your response to the Career Choice and the Accompanying Partner survey.   So far a phenomenal 300+ people have shared their experiences overseas but Louise and I want to be sure that everyone who has an experience to share has the opportunity to complete the survey.  If you haven’t alread

Breast Cancer Awareness campaigns on Facebook asking women to make cryptic comments about bra colours and where you put your handbag have created hype and hyperbole in the press and the blogosphere in previous years.  However,  2012′s campaign has caused minor havoc to erupt in the expat community.

Can’t tell you how excited I am that I’ve been invited, along with Louise Wiles (my co-conspiritor on the Career and the Accompanying Partner Survey) to participate in an online discussion with Tara Agacayak and Anastasia Ashman, initiators of the Global Niche. Louise and I contacted Tara and Anasta

Happy New Year! I’ve been in Australia over the holidays visiting family and friends and enjoying some of the sunshine and warmth that I missed during the last Northern European summer. While I was away, I wrote my second article for Expat Focus on Goal Setting. If you haven’t thought about what you