Calamity House Move with COVID and a Fractured Sacrum
Everyone has a crazy moving house story to share, but can you top this?Changing a domicile, never easy in the best circumstances, becomes an even greater challenge when unforeseen complications arise. Due to an accident, illness and life-coming-at-you, our long awaited relocation became extremely difficult. The first snafu arose when our moving company insisted they […]
Are We Home Yet? House Building Saga
Over the decades, I adjusted to dozens of relocations between three foreign countries. From a cot in a German teammate’s apartment, to a studio flat in Paris, to a rustic chalet in Switzerland, “Where Ever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home.)” Once driven by adventure and dreams of youth, what happened to that gutsy […]
Endless Challenge Flying Internationally
For me, a seasoned traveler having lived abroad nearly half a century, air travel has never been more challenging. Especially internationally. Especially for mixed nationals. I have lived in Europe so long, I may becoming one of those historic icons tourists love to visit! With my savvy, I should be cool as a cucumber. […]
International Family Reunion on the French Riviera
Family reunions across state lines may seem difficult, but imagine the complications trying to unite international ones like mine, living in 3 different countries. It is never easy for a French-Normand father and Norwegian-American mother sans home, in a mountain hut in Switzerland to meet up their Franco-American kids. Our daughter settled in the land […]
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X-Pat, a feisty globetrotter. Teacher, writer, coach, speaker, and trailblazer with the down-to-earth, open-armed persona of The Heartland and a European twist. I have lived in four different countries, speak three languages and raised two bi-cultural kids with one très bon Frenchman. My passion is inspiring courage, breaking barriers, and creating connections.
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