by Deborah Valentine | Jan 20, 2014 | Encourage, Resources
I have just read the most exciting book about global living – expatriation – relocation. The Mobile Life: A new approach to moving anywhere is genuinely the most useful reading for expats, their partners, their employers and the families and people around them to be...
by Deborah Valentine | Jan 2, 2014 | Reflecting
I was Miss Sourpuss the other day …..irritated by just about anything and everything …the person I smiled at, who did not smile back; the idiot behind me in the car, who saw my indicator as I approached a spot to parallel park in, and yet stayed put, on my...
by Deborah Valentine | Apr 30, 2013 | Encourage
The sheer difference in size between the first and this 4th edition of A Career in Your Suitcase is enough to qualify the title of this post. But, there are so many other features and factors about this new edition which give meaning to the delight I experienced when...
by Deborah Valentine | Jun 7, 2011 | Reflecting
Language is a funny thing. For many it is about being correct, for many others about being understood. Somewhere in between these positions, a sea of misunderstanding can unintentionally be created. I have brought my children up bilingually. The speak Dutch and...
by Deborah Valentine | Apr 6, 2011 | Reflecting
There has been a girl boy, pre-teen power struggle going on in my household of late – the battle ground: Justin Bieber, a (in my terminology) teener bopper who has girls worldwide doing what two generations before them did for the Beatles. When the discussions...
