Category: Interviews
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A Totally Impractical Expat Interview #7: Philip Johnson of The Philiad
Welcome to episode 7 in my infinite series of expat interviews. Today I bring you the eloquent and witty Phil of the brilliant Philiad (pa-dum!). Phil lives in Guadalajara, Mexico for now, and rumor has it he’ll be heading of to NYU come September to do his MA in International Education. That, I must say,…
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A Totally Impractical Expat Interview #6: Fiona Reilly of Life on Nanchang Lu
Welcome to the sixth interview in my infinite series of one sided conversations with expats (and ex-expats) all over the world. I started this series partly out of curiosity and partly out of a need for me to know I wasn’t alone in having mixed feelings about the path I had chosen. Now, with half…
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A Totally Impractical Expat Interview #5: Pam Mandel of Nerds Eye View
Welcome to the fifth interview in my infinite series of indirect conversations with expats, repats, half pats and other as yet unnamed pats. This time I bring you one of my personal small-h heroes, the ukelele-toting, penguin-friending, apt-word-writing Pam Mandel of Nerds Eye View. I started this interview series during a week when Shanghai was…
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A Totally Impractical Expat Interview #4: Michelle Lara of I Heart Mondegreens
Welcome to part 4 in my as yet infinite series on the varied and multi faceted expat experience. Today I bring you Michelle Lara of I Heart Mondegreens. Michelle is in Spain for now, working and studying for a Masters degree in translation. She’s married to a Spaniard. She grew up speaking Spanish and continues…
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A Totally Impractical Expat Interview #3: Andrew Couch of Grounded Traveler
Welcome to the third in my series of interviews with, ostensibly, expats. And by expats, I mean people who have been broadly defined as such by the fact that they are living somewhere else. It’s not as simple as that though. A bazillion people over time have ended up living far from their homelands for…
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A Totally Impractical Expat Interview #2: Connie Hum of Connvoyage
Welcome to the second in my series of interviews with expats, re-pats, un-pats, quarter-pats and half-pats. For this one, I bring you Connie Hum of Connvoyage. Once upon a time, not too long ago in a parallel universe, Connie had an awesome apartment in New York and a job at an international consulting firm. She…
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A Totally Impractical Expat Interview #1: Nancy Lewis of Wandering Solo
Welcome to the first interview in a series that has not yet had its parameters defined. I’ve loosely determined that I want to talk to as many people as possible (or at least until I start annoying people and cease-and-desist comments begin to outnumber spam) about a topic that has been banging around quite…
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A Call To Arms (and Submissions): A New Series on Settledness and Restlessness
As you may have noticed, my posts recently have been flailing wildly back and forth on the subject of being settled in a place. It’s not just my posts that are contradicting themselves. I’m waffling on a daily basis, veering between quiet acceptance of being in Shanghai long term (-ish), with comfy familiar things around…