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The dumpster fire that is my Facebook feed
Scrolling through Facebook feed… Article on Hillary Clinton’s health Eye roll. Hong Kong advertisement in Chinese Stare at video until it’s clear that the liquid being poured is not luscious beef...
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Hobbies for expat realists: paint matching air quality and more!
Jaded, cynical, tired are all some words that might describe a long term expat’s feelings about the constant reinvention required for every move. With these words in mind, the following chipper,...
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The jet lag inquisition
The fugue state brought on by swiftly shifting continents is commonly known as jet lag. Sufferers exist in a dazed dream state, unsure it if is night or day and confused about whether to pour coffee or...
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The things we store
Around 2 am one sleepless night in Hong Kong, I realized the waste of storing a first-generation TiVo for eleven years. So while in the US this summer we visited a warehouse down a blackberry-choked...
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Dreaming of tacos and Venn diagrams
Recently, a tapas place in Sai Kung transformed itself into a taco place. Or more specifically a fusion taco place. Aka a crappy taco place. Some people are willing to eat Mexican food in Hong Kong....
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Shedding Britishisms for an American Summer
It is the time of year — late spring — when I must shed the Britishisms that continually seep into my life. Living in the former British colony of Hong Kong and surrounded by people who favour (favor)...
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An expat’s non-transitional spring of bliss
The skies are blue and Hong Kong’s spring sunshine has warmed me up. But something is missing? It’s March and yet I don’t have a nagging ball of worry in my stomach. Yes, I’ve just realized that this...
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Wrongly predicted
Reigning in my blue sky thinking this New Year (photo credit) Reviewing my start of the year predictions from 2015, I can see that they were all completely inaccurate: 1. A year without moving. FAIL...
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Male cleavage and drunk Santa: a look at Christmases past
Pull your chair up to a non-existent Hong Kong fireplace, pour yourself a glass of something intoxicating and let’s look at blog posts of Christmases past: Should male cleavage (“heavage”) be part of...
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A decade abroad
The bright lights of Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui circa 2005. Ten years ago, my husband and I touched down in Hong Kong. Staggering out of the airport and into the hot air of the darkening evening, we...
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I am in a book, a book celebrating the dark, funny underbelly of expat life...
“This is China” (often shortened to TIC) is a saying one often hears from mainland China-based expats in moments of exasperation. For example: Upon seeing a row of sleeping construction workers laying...
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Summer Break: Tex-Mex and Donuts Before Hong Kong
After saying a final goodbye to Utrecht this weekend, I’ll spend the summer in America before officially re-relocating to Hong Kong near the end of August. Because I plan to spend all of my time in...
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Toggling the Europe-Asia brain switch
Blue skies over Central Hong Kong Although we will be living in the Netherlands for a few more weeks, I just took a quick trip to Hong Kong in order to organize parts of our upcoming move and to see a...
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A bakfiets in Hong Kong?
I am attached to my cargo bike. In Cambridge, I bought and fell in love with a bike that corners like a dream and hauls anything from babies in car seats to Christmas trees. Being prudent, I sold it...
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Moving back to Hong Kong
In 1986, an entire season of the American TV series Dallas was written-off as merely a dream. A key character, Bobby Ewing, had been killed off at the end of Season 8. When the following season’s...
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King’s Day: we got it all right
Up until Saturday, King’s Day was predicted to be rainy and miserable. The weather, however, blessed King Willem-Alexander, and his birthday, a major public holiday in the Netherlands, was graced with...
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Foreign food is un-American and weird, said a myopic children’s book author
I have found further evidence of a gaping hole in the children’s literature market. Last week it became clear that the children’s book Marvin Redpost: Class President was too American-centric to be...
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International School Readers, or: Biff and Kipper solve the The Pledge of...
As a parent volunteer at an international school, I was helping with the reading lesson. It was a South African student’s turn and he read out the following passage: A child’s voice came over the PA...
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The Foreign Asshole Fallacy
Living in a foreign land, one soon realizes that all of the assholes one encounters in daily life are ‘foreigners.’ Here in the Netherlands, nearly every one of the assholes that crosses my path is...
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Rotterdam is for people who need a break from charming, historic Dutch stuff
Rounding the corner, a wide-stretch of striking modern architecture and haze came into view. Inhaling deeply, I sighed with happiness. This view, shrouded in air pollution, reminded me of my beloved...
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