All that’s old is new again
Why make New Year’s resolutions, when it just means carrying the worst of your baggage with you into the new year?
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Come home for Christmas
Living a world away puts the holiday season in a very different perspective.
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As Canadian as I can be
What makes a national stereotype? And if we don’t live up to them, how can we expect others to?
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Working for the weekend
What do we do when our work ceases to be a motivational factor in our lives?
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Fonder for the absence
Sometimes being away from a place reshapes how we remember it
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(un)Great(ful) Expectations
What do we do when the goals society teaches us to strive for are not the ones we find fulfilling?
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What do you see in me?
When we travel, the image others have of who we are is so different that it can make us question our own image of ourselves.
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What’s that accent?
The politics of dialect, accent and language can be powerful, othering, and bizarre.
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No future
It’s 2014. Can we stop asking about kids, already?
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Future dreams in present verb tenses
Visualize the future? Live in the present? With so much conflicting advice, it’s hard to know how best to turn our dreams into reality!
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Expecting the unexpected
As Christmas approaches in Dubai, it’s an unusual combination of the familiar and the unexpected
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It’s the simple things
Living abroad means sometimes the everyday normal can appear incredibly strange, and vice versa
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Oh…Canada?
What does it mean to be Canadian when you’re living abroad?
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Teaching in a fishbowl
Sometimes teaching abroad can make you feel more like a circus show than an educator
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On growing older
Traveling among different cultures requires flexibility and adaptiveness. Are these qualities that become more difficult as we grow older?
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Teach our children well
When adults aren’t even able to form a respectable line for the subway, what does it say about the basic skills being taught by our education system[s]?
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Boom Town
In the face of an unpredictable oil industry, does the experience of Dubai hold lessons for Newfoundland?
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Work vs. Life
Achieving balance is a struggle for many of us, but it’s a particularly acute challenge for teachers.
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A wholly hot month
Living in a different culture is very different from just reading about it.
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Third culture
Born in one place and raised in another by parents from somewhere else. It’s difficult not to feel out of place in a city as multicultural as Dubai. But it makes you wonder: what would it be like to raise a child here?
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