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I don’t learn languages easily. In fact, after years of trying, I remain uni-lingual. A born introvert (“born” being debatable given the childhood environment that shaped me), I trained myself painfully...

Unless you’ve spent a lot of time traveling in Europe, you won’t get a real sense for what it’s like to live here until you’ve lived here. It’s difficult to gauge what is good and bad about any place when...

For the first time in my life, I don’t have a house key in my pocket. It didn’t cross my mind as I emptied the holiday apartment I had stayed in over the winter and loaded my car for the long drive...

This article was written at the end of 2021 when the realities of our departure from the US were still fresh in our memories. We left the US in 2019 right before the pandemic struck and are better off...