The Expat Diaries: Leaving Home, Finding Home
Vivian Najib, LaDonna Witmer, Sacha Cohen, Theresa Conroy, Asia Dawn Simonelli, Heather Afar, Pamela Clapp, How to Live in Denmark, Kay Fabella, Demita ForwardA newsletter for curious people who want to know what it's really like to pack up one life and start a new one somewhere else.
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Your partner’s job transferred them overseas and you moved abroad with them? Tell me more!
Don’t miss anyone’s story.
Join me on Friday for a LIVE conversation with two women whose husbands business took them overseas and so they moved to a country they didn’t necessarily choose to live in …. and built a new life there. Sometime...
Another month in Portugal. Several unsolved mysteries.
I’ve lived in Portugal for over six years.
This is what September looked like at my house.
What I Watched
This was a month of basically rewatching stuff I’ve already seen a million times. Because apparently Netflix was waiting for...
You moved to Denmark? Tell me more! 🇩🇰
Last Friday, I invited Kay Xander Mellish from to join me LIVE to talk about what it’s actually like to build a life in Denmark.
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What if you moved to Denmark? 🇵🇹
Join me on Friday for a LIVE conversation with someone who, once up on a time, made the decision to leave one life behind and build another in Europe.
This week, we’re heading to Denmark.
With my guest Kay Xander Mellish.
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My finger had been hovering over the buy button all week.
Shaking.
Uncertain.
Yet perfectly manicured because the nail salon across the street from my apartment building had all of the good colors.
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American currently living in a city by the sea in Portugal. Successful litigator turned professional home organizer. Reader of all the books. Lover of big, bright, bold, gallery walls. Lazy river floating champion.
Professional Word Nerd. Unprofessional Succulent Gardener. Irish Goodbye Enthusiast. Sometime Donkey Rescuer. Longtime Tea Drinker. Foul-Mouthed Heathen. Former Goth Girl. Current Frumpy Person. Aspiring Bog Witch.
Paris-based writer, GenXer, and community builder. My work has appeared in Fodor’s, The Independent, The Washington Post, Glamour, and more.
I don't post here. See my posts at YoFrance! From Philly. Newspaper Reporter turned Yoga Therapist. Beer Judge. French resident. Lover of dogs, crows and otters.
Single mom abroad, coparenting in Spain, doing things unconventionally after divorce. Writer and relationship coach exploring what happens when life doesn't go according to plan.
From Florida to Portugal at 50. On mindful immigration, empty nesting abroad, and finding new ground—geographically and personally. If you came here from TikTok, yes, I am @mindfulmigrant.
French culture. Parisian style. The art of living well. Weekly essays from Paris.
I’m Kay, a Copenhagen-based keynote speaker on Danish culture and Danish business, and the voice behind the "How to Live in Denmark" podcast since 2013. My workshops help international teams and visitors to Denmark understand how Danes live and work.
Writing for people 5+ years abroad who are outwardly settled and still carrying something they can't name · Essays on migratory grief and the "no longer new, still not home" phase · Fil-Am 17 yrs in Madrid · Counsellor-in-training (CPCAB) · \ud83d\udccd\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8
Demita Passley is the founder of Boutique Deskai and creator of the Global Compass App - a relocation strategist and trusted guide for Black families ready to stop researching and start moving.
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