It’s the end of a rollercoaster year that saw the Defining Moves website accidentally launched with this post, attract its first non-coerced subscriber (thank you, Rosemary!) and now have logged over 6000 pageviews. So, to everyone who has taken the time to read, comment, inspire and inform this website, [...]
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The Feisty One is excited about New Year, and I fear she may be disappointed. Previous years celebrations have been characterized by scorpion invasions, rogue elephants, giraffes eating our roof (it was straw, in case you were confused) and me being hunted by a pack of zebras.
The highlight, however, has to be the [...]
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It’s the time of year when we are bombarded with “How to be Better / Smarter / Richer / More Efficient” articles, and I’ve had enough. I have been re-inventing on a global scale for the last ten years, and all it’s got me is tired, cranky and more aware of my own cellulite. [...]
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Everyone loves to receive a card in the mail, and never more so than when you are 4000 miles away from home. And while most of us send out holiday cards once a year, birthdays, anniversaries and other celebrations are often left to a last minute message on Facebook. So here’s a step by [...]
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It’s Boxing Day in Britain today, where history dictates that the Squires of the Manor share a feast with the peasants. In more modern times, it’s where people throughout the land recline on lounge furniture nursing stomachs bulging with leftover turkey sandwiches and watch James Bond reruns. It’s a time for contemplating the Christmas debris, [...]
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The Feisty one was born on 17th December, so Christmas that year was a little hazy. In fact, there is very little I can remember of it apart from mastitis, trying to buy drugs and the great collapse (more of that later). In the spirit of Christmas, I’ll spare you the details of [...]
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I recently went back to the UK for a seasonal family visit, and have just received my Christmas gift from AT&T, my cellphone carrier here in the US. It’s a bill for $286. I would never previously have described myself as innocent, but obviously in matters of data roaming charges, I am, because this bill [...]
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All the literature suggests that expats should take time to identify what Christmas means to them, so I have spent the last few days reviewing my own memories of the holiday season. The common and repeating theme seems to be chaos, so here’s part one of experiences that I have no wish to ever [...]
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The Winter holidays have begun in earnest, and the Other Half is seized with a frenzy of DIY. Usually obsessed by endless unintelligible spreadsheets on his laptop, he has finally broken the mold and is actually spending some of his vacation time away from the screen. Thus attention previously gripped by scheduling is now [...]
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Update – He has just received his PSAT results (yet another test of which we have very little knowledge) and apparently his results were considerably better than his grades predicted. He is now avidly consulting college resources to explore his career options, with the current frontrunner being anesthesiologist. The reason for this? “It’s well paid, [...]
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