I have been living abroad since 2010. It took me fifteen years to actually believe that. Here is what changed.

We use the same words and assume we are pointing at the same thing. We are often not.

You can feel dumber in a second language even when you are not. You can be completely fluent and still exhausted by it. Both are true.

During a SIETAR conversation intercultural psychologist Margery Pimentel said something that got a gasp out of me.

When you move abroad the people who reflected back your competence disappear. Global career consultant Renata Takacura explains why and how to rebuild.

Here is what face theory, attribution, and epistemic humility have to do with why being wrong about a cultural observation feels different from being wrong about anything else.

I live a simple life. My underwear is from Primark. But do not take my robot vacuum. It costs 400 euros and it is absolutely my baseline now. That is hedonic adaptation in one object. Here is what it has to do with moving abroad and going back.

Living between cultures means juggling competing definitions of success. Here is why the pressure to do more is often an inherited scorecard and how to recognise it.

Samar Karam asked me whether I believe in we are pregnant. I said no. Here is the longer answer.

An author deleted me from every platform she could find me on because I asked her to explain her book club. Her response: it is a book club. I do not need to sell anything. She was wrong. Here is why.

Here is where that question led.

The answer may lie in how their new country defines belonging, identity, and cultural membership.

The real numbers from month three of a public demarketing experiment.

Why do people move abroad?

My husband said something the other day and I realised I have been doing exactly that in Switzerland.

Parenting Unpacked and Maternity Abroad just arrived in Spain.

I am going to need a minute with this one because I have not even brushed my teeth yet.

For some, a child is a reason to stay put. For me, the kid is in the carry-on.

This is what I figured out after almost ten years in Australia and one pandemic about my accent.

Someone said women who dress revealingly are asking for it. That it is a man’s natural instinct. It fired me up.