Dear Readers: Our week is coming to an end and I wanted to take this time to say ‘Thank you’.  You mean so much to me and I continue to blog every day because of your encouragement, your support, and most importantly your friendship.  I do not know how you stumbled upon my blog but... Read More »

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Today marks a new monthly blogging challenge called Blogtember, hosted by Story of My Life blog. Which means that some days this month you will be seeing more than one post a day as I have other regular scheduled posts.  If you are also participating in the link up, let me know in the comments... Read More »

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Today I am a guest poster on: Found Love Now What with a post I have entitled: Beating the Blues to a Happier You. If you have stumbled on my blog through Belinda’s site, thank you and I hope you will enjoy my corner of the Blogosphere.  I blog about being an expat, growing up as... Read More »

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My blogger friend Casey asked me to be part of herWanderlust: A Travel Series link up and how could I say no? WanderlustA  F a m i l y   A f f a i r Wanderlust has been instilled in me since I was born to two nomadic parents in a military family who were on... Read More »

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Another weekend has begun and with it another Self Portrait Saturday.  For today’s Self Portrait I share with you the self portrait entitled ‘From the Wings’.  Often times it is easy to feel like I am waiting for something else or something new to begin.  Being a Third Culture Kid and living in a highly... Read More »

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I first wanted to take the time to acknowledge all of my readers who took the time to comment, tweet, and email me after my Wednesday post: Marriage, In laws, and Cross Cultural.  I was surprised by how many people reached out to me after dealing with very similar cultural issues with family.  It is not something I would wish... Read More »

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It is official! My sister has finally booked her plane ticket which means my whole family will be for my vow renewal in about five weeks.  Granted ‘whole family’ means my mum and my sister.  I come from a very small family where both my grandmothers died before I was born and grew up with... Read More »

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