Being an expat, new continents with different climates might be a part of your daily life. Before moving to places like Newfoundland, Brazil, Texas and Alaska I had an idea of how it would be – but, as it turned out, I couldn’t be more wrong! Our first expat assignment brought us to St. John’s, […]
The S-therapy
24/03/2014 by 2 Comments
Desperate expat wife or not, we can all be hit by the gloom of everyday life, and a few tricks to get us out of it might come in handy. Nothing fancy or extraordinary, we’re talking about simple – possibly banal, but at times highly efficient – everyday forms of therapy. CLEW introduces the S-therapy: […]
You look smashing!
01/03/2014 by Leave a Comment
March 1st is World Compliment Day. That makes me think back to my first time in New York, where people threw compliments at me on the street and I was completely caught off guard. Especially coming from a deeply rooted small town mentality of “who do you think you are?” and “you must not think […]
Bowling with Houston’s expat guys
18/02/2014 by 2 Comments
Heidi met up with Norwegian stay-at-home expat guys in Houston, Texas to find out if they’re taking domestic work and childcare seriously, or are living the high life with sports cars and work-outs while their wives are working. Join them for Bowling Tuesday! Six guys show up. They tie their shoelaces and scan the shelves […]
The business of relationships
05/02/2014 by Leave a Comment
Which came first – the chicken or the egg? That’s an ages old philosophical question. The same can be asked about personal relationships and business relationships. The way people arrange who they spend time with parallels how companies structure their manner of doing business. This is not to suggest that people enter relationships strictly as […]
A penny for your thoughts
26/01/2014 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes I wonder if my brain follows the outside temperature, for example when it hits freezing point. Now, in my situation – you know, the expat wife situation – I can allow my brain to come to full stop on days like these. Not at all indicating that expat wife brains stop more easily, I am […]
Happy New Year
31/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
While waiting to pay for your groceries, do you ever look at what the person behind you is buying, placing your imagination in between the milk cartons and veggies to get a small glimpse of who that person is and where he or she’s off to later? I just did my last grocery shopping in 2013, getting ready […]
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