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When in Rome
I’ve never been to Rome, but I have been around the block in a few different countries. And I’m a mom, so doling out advice is in my job description. So 2 plus 2 equals 12, right? Often I will come...
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A, B, C
One of the original ideas behind Wine and Cheese (Doodles) was to find a more creative outlet for my new found ‘free’ time. I have picked up some knitting skills along the way (and have a rack full of...
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Splitting Hairs
I used to change my hair, as the saying goes, as often as I changed my underwear. For almost a decade, I alternated between buzzing it to a grade 3 and wearing it long, with every awkward length in...
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Real Housewives of Copenhagen
Photo: andyhide-blog.blogspot.com When we first made the decision to move abroad for my husband’s job, I was regaled with stories of The Help; maids and house cleaners and au pairs and chefs and...
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A Little Less Conversation
Photo: designyoucantrust.com I held in my hand ticket number 559. From what I can tell, it’s possible the Danes are the world’s biggest fans of the numbered ticket system. To Americans like me, the...
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The First Rule of Ex-Pat Club
Ex-pat postings are a bit like a revolving door; there’s always someone coming, someone going, entering, exiting, getting stuck with their nose pressed against the glass with a look of horrified...
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Because You’re Worth It
Photo: collectorsweekly.com This post was going to be about hair. Along the way it took a left turn and became, yet again, about aging. Another sharp turn to the left and it morphed into an idea about...
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Clap Along if You Feel Like A Room Without A Roof
Move over Magic Kingdom, there’s a new happiest place on Earth. According to surveys and rubrics and a convoluted, weighted point system that makes the U.S. Electoral College look like kindergarten...
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A Broad Abroad-Lessons I’ve Learned as an Expat
In a few short weeks, several good friends will pack up their homes, sling a bag or two and board flights bound for somewhere new. Some have known the stack of their deck for a while, have had months...
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Nine Expats You’ll Meet Abroad
I’ve just about recovered from June’s flurry of going away parties and leaving teas, yet here we are, only at the autumn break and they’re starting up again. Yesterday I dutifully put on my boots, my...
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Four Expats and a Funeral
When you live abroad and someone on the other side of the world is gravely ill or passes away, normal rules don’t apply. No one pops round with a tuna casserole to help the family out. There is no...
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We Go Together (like rama lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong)
This past weekend I traveled to London to make merry in honor of a friend’s 40th birthday. It was a celebration, not just of the birthday girl and her milestone, but of friendship. Old friends and new,...
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A Tale of Two Valentines
My body has always been map of freckles and moles and what, as I was growing up, my mother euphemistically and gently called beauty marks. As a girl, I hated them. Passionately. I dreamed of miracle...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Life in Expat Limbo
Last week I had lunch with some friends. We moaned about Copenhagen prices, discussed the pros and cons of a liquid lunch and made plans to do drinks soon so that we could get more in the er…spirit of...
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Expat Chronicles: Calling for Backup
When you have visitors, it’s easy to show off the best parts of your adopted home abroad. The sights, the opportunities, your kick ass apartment a few blocks from the beach. It’s easy to wax poetic...
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The Expat Snail and the Whale
Marilyn Monroe famously cemented the idea of the seven-year itch in our collective psyche with a billowing skirt above a New York City subway grate. I don’t have the legs for that. Or the dress. Or the...
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Schoolhouse Rock
Like many expat kids, my boys attend an international school. And while it has rubrics and complicated assessments instead of grades and smart boards instead of chalk, it is a school in the most...
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These Are A Few of My Danish(y) Things….
Below are the lyrics to a parody song we performed last month to say so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, and goodbye to the families leaving our school community. I promised I would share the lyrics...
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The Girl in the (Expat) Bubble: The Best Kept Secret of a Broad Abroad
You would think that after nearly four years in a country my day-to-day exposure to the language would render me fluent enough to understand, say… a television commercial. You would be wrong. I tried...
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The Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very-Bad Days
Last week I put together a slide show for a good friend who is leaving Copenhagen. I watched it with my husband, smiling and getting a little teary. As the music faded and the presentation ended with a...
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