Jul 05 2009
I seem to lament annually on the challenges of being an expat on the 4th of July. There’s just no way to create even a reasonable facsimile of this most American of holidays here among the Vikings. And for me, it’s doubly tough to be so far away from home on Independence Day because it’s …
Dec 05 2008
I’m about 85 percent unpacked from my Thanksgiving trip to the good ol’ US of A, and that’s WAY ahead of my normal schedule. Once the dirty clothes are extracted, I tend to unload everything else ‘as needed’, which means my suitcases can lay around partially empty/full (depending on your perspective) for weeks after a …
Jun 05 2006
For as long as I’ve lived abroad, I’ve had to face some form of the following question on a regular basis: How could the American people have elected George W. Bush president? And my answer has always been the same: We didn’t. This was fairly easy to explain the FIRST time we didn’t elect him …
Sep 19 2005
And according to this site, “fabu!” really is a word! “If something is even more fabulous than fabulous it becomes fabu! Always said with an exclamation mark after the word.” The conference I attended was basically a gathering of (mostly) American ex-pat clubs from all over the Nordic region. The company, food and (surprisingly) entertainment were all fantastic. I …
Aug 06 2005
It doesn’t happen as often as it used to, but every once in awhile I have an experience that makes me stop and think, “Oh my gosh…I live in Sweden!” And generally, it isn’t even about *Sweden* per se, but about being somewhere other than the United States. Kind of like when Dorothy tells Toto …
