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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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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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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Teaching in a fishbowl
Sometimes teaching abroad can make you feel more like a circus show than an educator
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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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Turning back the clock
When you live far from your support networks, aging and nostalgia take on a different meaning
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Confronting familiarity in unfamiliar places
On the pros and cons and complexities of the ex-pat community
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