I Was Invited to Join Rede Brasil Suíça.
Last year I went to a Rede Brasil Suíça event and did not know what to expect.
Nostalgia is everywhere right now.
It is in the marketing, the products, the content. Someone figured out that nostalgia converts and now the whole internet smells like 1994.
I Do Not Remember the Dream. I Remember Her Face.
I was maybe ten when I had a vivid dream and told a friend about it at school.
Every Pregnancy Book Makes an Assumption About You. Here Is What Mine Does Not.
I came across The Ordinary's Markup Marché campaign. I made my own version for pregnancy books, using made-up covers.
He Told Me to Stay and Keep Making Coffee. I Am Glad I Did Not Listen.
I have written before about bad advice. I have received enough of it to fill a book that nobody would want to read. But there is one that keeps coming back.
They Told Me I Was Crazy for Pricing My Books This Way. I Am Fine, People.
Someone called me the e.l.f. Cosmetics of independent publishing last week. I am choosing to take that as the highest possible compliment.
Her Son Asked How to Stop Missing Grandma. She Told Him the Only True Thing.
Jean told me about Daniele. A friend, a conversation, a name passed along the way names travel when you are building something and someone says: you should speak to her.
She Thought I Had Been Trafficked. I Had Been Learning a Language.
I did not tell many people I was going to move abroad. My brother knew. Some family members. But my friends, the people I saw every week, most of them did not hear it from me.
She Would Have Appreciated a Warning About the Silence.
Dani Balieiro Amorim moved to Austin as a journalist correspondent. When the circumstances that had made it possible collapsed she did not tell anyone. She returned to the city she had left and resumed a life she had told everyone she was finished with.
What Actually Happens Inside Your Brain When You Move Countries. Janaina de Carvalho Explains.
I asked Janaina de Carvalho the neuropsychological questions because I wanted to understand what was actually happening inside the head of the woman who cannot find the heating in a Swiss apartment because it comes from the floor and she has been looking at walls.
I Had No Diplomat Parents. I Had Harry Potter and a Grandmother With a Travel Company.
At the Coffee with Expats meeting everyone had a story. From Egypt. Speaks ten languages. Parents were diplomats. I sat there thinking I had none of that.
She Watched Her Son Eat Rice and Dal With His Fingers. That Was the Point.
I found Cristiane Scheid on Instagram while researching Parenting Unpacked. She had moved to India with her husband and son, had her second child there, and is now in Mexico.
How Do You Know When You Have Adapted Too Much? I Asked Aline França Right To Her Face.
I have been on a rampage lately of asking the people who live and work inside this territory questions I am genuinely curious about.
“Identity Loss Doesn’t Happen All at Once.” Dr. Débora Pasin on What Parenting Unpacked Gets Right.
What happens when a linguist and PhD researcher with 28 years of experience reads Parenting Unpacked? Dr. Débora Pasin breaks down the silent transformations of relocation, identity loss in expat mothers, and why the book gives language to the everyday moments that make us question who we are.
Rima Sent Me Notes While She Was Still Reading. L-O-V-E-D it!
Most of the time I send an advanced copy and then I wait. Rima Elahi-Syed did something nobody else had done before.
What Is the Inherited Scorecard?
The inherited scorecard is the set of standards you absorbed without noticing. What a good parent looks like. What success looks like. What kind of life is considered worth wanting.
I Did It. Maternity Abroad Is Now on Kindle Unlimited.
Aloe vera eye mask on. Decision made. Maternity Abroad is now enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.
The Marketing Underdog — Episode One: The Starting Line
Everyone is making video series right now. I have approximately two hours per day to do everything and I am not a social media person. So naturally I decided to document a public marketing experiment. In written form.