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IN BETWEEN
“I live in America now,” I say, my voice growing quiet and then rising at the end of the sentence as if it is a question. But I’m pretty sure this statement is a fact. Our grand home in Iceland … Continue reading
Posted in expat, Home Leave, Iceland, moving, State Department
Tagged career, expat, foreign service, Iceland, Lair of the Bear, Los Angeles, moving, travel, Washington DC
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LOVE LETTER TO ICELAND
I’m sitting in an almost empty room, surrounded only by moving boxes. Our two years in Iceland is over and it’s time to move to Washington, DC. But I can’t go without first telling Iceland how much I love her. … Continue reading
HERE WE GO, AGAIN
I stood in the pantry and stared at the overcrowded shelves. Spilling with the detritus of the last two years, my eyes moved over the shelf that’s sort-of designated for wrapping paper and the one that’s sort-of designated for holiday … Continue reading
Posted in expat, Government Officals, Iceland, moving, Parenting, State Department, Summer, Washington
Tagged bitching, expat, foreign service, Iceland, moving, Reykjavik, Washington DC
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DO I KNOW YOU?
I couldn’t figure out why everyone was talking to me. Complete strangers wanted to discuss a potential afternoon cold spell, my shoes, the menu. During a long walk along the shore I could barely complete a sentence because I was … Continue reading
Posted in DC, expat, Foreign Service, Iceland, moving, State Department
Tagged career, expat, foreign service, Iceland, Motherhood, moving, Reykjavik, trailing spouse, Washington DC
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BOUNCE
I bounce: between countries, between days, between states of mind. Write. Travel. Parent. Host. Play. Edit. I don’t know stasis, nor routine. My steady state is lost. There is only movement, change, bounce. If I was a techie, I’d create … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, expat, expatriate, Foreign Service, Iceland, Motherhood, moving
Tagged Algonkian Writers Conference, Ever After Studio, expat, foreign service, Geysir, Gullfoss, Iceland, London
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BLUEBERRIES IN A LAVA FIELD: Early Impressions of Iceland
First I notice the earth—black boulders and small rough pebbles, volcanoes, a conical mountain, and the enormous expanse of tall, brown barren land that lays slumbering across the bay. In Iceland, the land rises and falls sharply, exposing tectonic plates, … Continue reading
Posted in expat, expatriate, Foreign Service, Iceland, Motherhood, moving, Parenting, Travel
Tagged Culture Night, expat, expatriate, foreign service, Hofsos, Iceland, Iceland with children, kids, Motherhood, Parenting, Reykjavik, Sigulfjordur, travel, travel with children, Vatnses
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HOME LEAVE
From inside the lake house I hear small waves crash against the shore and the soft patter of a light rain. My sister-in-law’s donkey, Zack, is tucked into his stable and on the counter behind me sits an over-sized bucket … Continue reading
Posted in expat, expatriate, Foreign Service, Home Leave, ice, Motherhood, moving, Parenting, Summer, trailing spouse, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged career, expat, expatriate, foreign service, home leave, Iceland, kids, Lair of the Bear, Los Angeles, Michael Lewis, Motherhood, New Yorker, Parenting, Summer, trailing spouse, travel, Upper Peninsula, Vanity Fair
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MY MOSCOW FAVORITES
MY MUST-SEE PLACES & THINGS TO DO –BANYA BEATDOWN: On a wintry day, what could be better than watching women of all sizes beat each other with birch leaves, sweat and pray in the steam room, or plunge in … Continue reading
Posted in Bucket List, expat, expatriate, Moscow, moving, Russia, Summer, trailing spouse, Travel
Tagged Bucket List, expat, expatriate, foreign service, holiday, kids, Moscow, Motherhood, Russia, Summer, trailing spouse, travel
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STALIN’S SNOW
Puffed white seedlings float through Moscow’s hot summer streets, alighting on park benches, gathering on corners, or flitting through crowds, before a gust forces them onward. Often, the millions of ever-present puffs hang, suspended in mid-air as if they are … Continue reading
Posted in expat, expatriate, Foreign Service, Moscow, moving, Russia, snow, Spring, Summer, trailing spouse, Travel
Tagged Bucket List, career, expat, expatriate, foreign service, Iceland, Motherhood, moving, Parenting, pukh, Reykjavik, Russia, snow, Stalin's Snow, Summer, trailing spouse, travel
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READING CHEKOV IN ANTALYA
“Both our children have scarlet fever,” I told my husband. As the sentence escaped, I too felt light-headed, as if a wind blew in beneath my feet and I were hovering a few inches above the Bukhara carpet in the … Continue reading
Posted in expat, expatriate, Foreign Service, Moscow, Motherhood, moving, Parenting, Russia, snow, Spring, Travel, turkey, Winter
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