The 2nd Best Decision I’ve Ever Made

How many decisions do you make in the course of your life? Cereal or toast? (Neither) Coffee or tea? (Coffee) Open the bottle of wine or not? (Is it Friday? Then yes.). Life is chock-a-block with decisions, from the mundane to the momentous. Every now and then you're whistling along happily enough, tearing through the... Continue Reading →

The Weight of (Moving Around) the World on Your Shoulders

I write a lot about my life as an expat, but usually through the window of my own experience: that of the non-earning partner. It's not often I delve into what it must be like for the catalyst expat. The one whose job brings you to another country, whose carefully negotiated package determines everything from where you live... Continue Reading →

May 19, 2016 24

The Long Goodbye

For the better part of the last eight years my life has been a constant stream of goodbyes. I said good-bye to my beloved New York City. I said goodbye to Cindy, to Carol, to Britt. To Grand Street and McCarren Park, to the L train and to twenty years of the Big Apple. I said goodbye... Continue Reading →

March 18, 2016 14

If One Night In Bangkok and the World’s Your Oyster, What Does Four Years in Denmark Get You?

Four years ago we stole a last glance at the Tattooine landscape of Larnaca Airport and after a brief touch down at Schipol made our way home…another home, a new home, a Copenhagen home. My kids now have officially called Denmark home longer than any other place. They've lived in the land of Lego and... Continue Reading →