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Identity Preservation Is the Next Intercultural Challenge Nobody Is Talking About Yet.
What if the hostility we are seeing toward migrants right now is not really about migrants at all? What if it is about identity?
I’m practically a Jackie Chan. I do my own stunts.
The promotional photo for Parenting Unpacked was taken on my dinning table with a glass of tea, two biscuits, and a coffee stain.
Houston, We Do Not Have a Problem at All.
IngramSpark runs on a delay so the numbers I have are not the full picture. But here is what I can see.
The SIETAR España Congress 2026 in VAL Starts Today. Here Is the First Part of the Speech.
The congress starts tomorrow. The speech is ready.
May June 24th Be With You. Parenting Unpacked Is Available Today.
It is June 24th. Parenting Unpacked is available today.
It Sold. Parenting Unpacked Just Got Its First Pre-Order.
Parenting Unpacked just sold its first pre-order. A printed copy to a reader in the United Kingdom.
I Had a Call With Ruth Van Reken. My Face Did the Thing: 🥴
I explained the demarketing strategy. It makes more sense the longer I talk about it. I am not sure I had enough time. And then we got to the SIETAR Valencia presentation and the conversation became something else entirely.
She Said I Should Write a Book Two About This. It Was Already in Part 3.
A few months after Maternity Abroad launched I had a live conversation about the book.
There Is a Book I Am Supposed to Be Writing. I Am Writing a Different One.
It arrived in a dream.
I Was Supposed to Be an Au Pair in America. I Ended Up Here Instead.
I was supposed to be an au pair in the United States. It did not work out. At the time it felt like a door closing.
Wait. What? Parenting Unpacked Is Now Available for Pre-Order.
I went to check on Parenting Unpacked on Amazon. Normal anxious author behaviour. And there it was.
Three Books. One Arc.
People sometimes ask which book to start with. Honest answer: it does not matter. This is not Lord of the Rings.
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.