Recently a friend confided to me, with a mixture of both surprise and exasperation, how difficult she’s found managing her time. A new job, two young(ish) kids, a house, a husband, a life, the whites, the darks, the ironing and all the rest. It’s a lot to fit into the confines of the day, I…
Tag: Denmark
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…
The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very-Bad Days
Last week I put together a slide show for a good friend who is leaving Copenhagen. I watched it with my husband, smiling and getting a little teary. As the music faded and the presentation ended with a slick little slide reading “The End”, he looked at me and said: “Wow, anyone would think we had loads of…
The Girl in the (Expat) Bubble: The Best Kept Secret of a Broad Abroad
You would think that after nearly four years in a country my day-to-day exposure to the language would render me fluent enough to understand, say… a television commercial. You would be wrong. I tried the other night: not a single Danish word penetrated my mono-linguistic brain. As someone living in a country not your own,…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 