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Highlight of 2012: “Pinning” down expat, TCK, travel & other displaced themes on Pinterest

Would it be mixing my metaphors too much to say we stumbled upon Pinterest in 2012? I suppose so. But that’s really what happened. By the end of last year, Kate Allison and I were debating about… more →

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Highlight of 2012: "Pinning" down expat, TCK, travel & other displaced themes on Pinterest — 10 comments

ML Awanohara wrote 5 months ago: Would it be mixing my metaphors too much to say we stumbled upon Pinterest in 2012? I suppose so. Bu … more →

Tags: Cornerstone, crosscultural marriage, Expat movies, Expat novelists, Holidays, Pinterest, Seasons Greetings!, Social Media, TCK

Lessons from Two Small Islands -- 4) Keep Calm and Focus on Your Core — 6 comments

ML Awanohara wrote 8 months ago: Keep calm and focus on your core — it sounds as though I’m about to lead a Pilates class … more →

Tags: Memoir | Travel | Food Writers, acquired tastes, Japan, joseph pilates, repatriation, UK, What a Displaced World

LESSONS FROM TWO SMALL ISLANDS -- 2) Keep calm and learn to enjoy imperfection — 2 comments

ML Awanohara wrote 11 months ago: I must have been born with a melancholy nature, because it didn’t take me long to work out tha … more →

Tags: Memoir | Travel | Food Writers, What a Displaced World, Japan, USA, UK, Fashion, Beauty, Olympian feats, repatriation

EXPAT MOMENTS: Two Englishmen in New York — 1 comment

awindram wrote 11 months ago: Following last month’s post on expat moments, we start a new series focusing on little moments … more →

Tags: Memoir | Travel | Food Writers, What a Displaced World, Strange Sightings, USA, UK, New York, displaced nation, New York City, Columbus Circle

Displaced Poll: Which one of these celebs should take a gap year, and where? — 3 comments

Kate Allison wrote 11 months ago: A couple of weeks ago, we interviewed Random Nomad Jeff Jung, a specialist in career break travel. F … more →

Tags: Just For Laughs, USA, UK, Australia, Displaced Hall of Fame, Displaced Qs

Ladies and gentlemen, may we present: THE EXPAT OSCARS! Um...hello? Anyone there? — 5 comments

tjslater wrote 1 year ago: The Expat Oscars — really? Now that would be an unusual event. What would it look like? I live … more →

Tags: Just For Laughs, What a Displaced World, USA, Republic of Ireland, Spain, UK, Europe, Los Angeles, middle east

10 expat books ripe for movie adaptations — 5 comments

awindram wrote 1 year ago: Those who have been following this blog for some time are probably all too aware of my unhealthy pre … more →

Tags: Pot Luck, Japan, USA, France, Paris, UK, Displaced Hall of Fame, Italy, Expat novelists

All hail Sir Richard Branson, along with global nomads who delve into global misery -- and welcome to November — 18 comments

ML Awanohara wrote 1 year ago: The catalog for Heifer International has just landed in my mailbox, encouraging me to donate a sheep … more →

Tags: activists, What a Displaced World, Reality Bites, Displaced Hall of Fame, Africa, crosscultural, Global Philanthropy

5 proverbs on cross-cultural relations, by Pocahontas — 4 comments

ML Awanohara wrote 1 year ago: June was Alice-in-Wonderland month at The Displaced Nation, when we discovered that Alice’s … more →

Tags: Just For Laughs, What a Displaced World, USA, UK, pocahontas, crosscultural marriage

5 proverbs on cross-cultural relations, by Pocahontas — 4 comments

ML Awanohara wrote 1 year ago: June was Alice-in-Wonderland month at The Displaced Nation, when we discovered that Alice’s … more →

Tags: Just For Laughs, What a Displaced World, USA, UK, pocahontas, crosscultural marriage

In search of 007th heaven: A travel yarn in three parts (Part 3)

The Displaced Nation Team wrote 1 year ago: We welcome back Sebastian Doggart for the final installment of his story about the pilgrimage he mad … more →

Tags: Pot Luck, What a Displaced World, UK, Expat novelists, New York, Writers We Love, Caribbean, Jamaica, Travel yarn

CLASSIC DISPLACED WRITING: Ian Fleming — 7 comments

awindram wrote 1 year ago: As The Displaced Nation has been serializing Sebastian Doggart’s article (part 1 and part 2) a … more →

Tags: fiction writers, UK, Displaced Hall of Fame, Expat novelists, Movable Feasts, Writers We Love, Caribbean, Jamaica

In search of 007th heaven: A travel yarn in three parts (Part 2) — 2 comments

The Displaced Nation Team wrote 1 year ago: We welcome back Sebastian Doggart for the second in his three-part travel yarn about his attempt to … more →

Tags: Pot Luck, What a Displaced World, UK, Expat novelists, New York, Writers We Love, Caribbean, Jamaica, Travel yarn

In search of 007th heaven: A travel yarn in three parts (Part 1) — 6 comments

The Displaced Nation Team wrote 1 year ago: We welcome Sebastian Doggart to The Displaced Nation as a guest blogger. Sebastian won one of our Al … more →

Tags: Pot Luck, What a Displaced World, UK, Expat novelists, New York, Writers We Love, Caribbean, Jamaica, Travel yarn

Mia Wasikowska -- a Third Culture Kid who is no Cinderella

Kate Allison wrote 2 years ago: Neatly coinciding with The Displaced Nation’s recent themes of the Royal Wedding and Gothic Tales, M … more →

Tags: Pot Luck, Australia, Displaced Hall of Fame, France, Germany, gothic tales, Poland, royal wedding, Russia

Displaced India Hicks throws in beach hat for Royal Wedding hat — 2 comments

ML Awanohara wrote 2 years ago: Special announcement from TDN: ML Awanohara and Kate Allison will be live-tweeting the Royal Wedding … more →

Tags: Entrepreneurs, UK, Displaced Hall of Fame, royal wedding, Caribbean

Jamie Oliver, culinary expert -- and now expat? — 4 comments

ML Awanohara wrote 2 years ago: Try as I might, I can’t make out why Jamie Oliver has taken it upon himself to save my country … more →

Tags: activists, It's food, USA, UK, Displaced Hall of Fame, acquired tastes, Los Angeles, Jamie Oliver

CONTEMPORARY DISPLACED WRITING: Fury -- Salman Rushdie

awindram wrote 2 years ago: Continuing with our look at writing concerned with expat experiences, when I first moved to the US, … more →

Tags: fiction writers, USA, UK, Displaced Hall of Fame, Expat novelists, New York, Writers We Love, Contemporary Displaced Writing


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