Before writing ‘Becoming Goan,’ I became an expat, following my husband from India to Dubai on the first of several corporate relocations over 18 years.
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For anyone who has spent decades as an expat trailing spouse, seeing your children leave the nest and your husband become a stay-at-home retiree is a major change of life, dynamics and pace.
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One of my biggest expat challenges was our long-distance “split family” life. For 8 years, my husband spent weekdays working in South Asia, and weekends with us in Dubai.
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I was a young Swiss woman, living a beautiful love story with my boyfriend. One evening, he took me to dinner and told me he’d been offered a job in West Africa…
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I went to India a corporate warrior and ended up a stay-at-home dad — which turned out to be my true dream job — and author of three books.
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If summertime happens to be when you feel a yearning for some new reading material, here’s a mix of options for trailing and towing spouses alike.
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In 2008, I had an ideal life. I was working part-time for a chemical company as a supply chain implementation lead, and I was a part-time stay at home mom in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. It felt like I…
My new novel tells the story of the interweaving lives of a British expat woman and her Filipina maid in Malaysia. It’s ultimately a tale of love, belonging and discovery — loosely based on my own experiences as a trailing spouse.
After six years in Washington, D.C., my tenth move as a Navy wife brought us to the tropical paradise of Oahu in Hawaii. This turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
For my ninth move as a Navy wife, I traded in Seattle’s jeans-and-tattoos vibe for the power suits, prestige, and politics of Washington, D.C.