Banned in China

Is your blog banned in China?

Because mine is! You can test any website to see if it’s censored on The Great Firewall of China website. I guess the real wall doesn’t work so well anymore…

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A weekend in KL

My next article on the Viator Travel blog is up! My budding career as a freelance writer continues!
This one is an introduction to the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. Take a look – maybe it will inspire you to come visit!

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Looking for an expat blog?

One of my absolute favorite things to do is read the blogs of other expats – it doesn’t matter what country they’re in, I just love reading about their adventures.
So, I am very pleased to share with you the Expat Women blog database. There are around 140 expat blogs listed (all written by women), including [...]

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Photo Hunt: Rare

Living overseas gives us lots of opportunities to travel, and while we’re traveling, to see some crazy and rare things. For this week’s theme, I decided to post one rare thing from each of our three major trips this year (click on the pictures for a larger view):
While in Bali, we saw

a huge Banyan tree. [...]

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The flower of the sun

Today, my wonderful husband surprised me with a bright bouquet of sunflowers:

I love getting flowers! There’s just something about having fresh flowers in your house. I wish I could get my act together to have them more frequently – I certainly have enough empty vases lying around. I love all kinds of flowers, but my [...]

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Feelin’ Chilly?

Here in the tropics I have enjoyed 2 years of wearing only capri pants, flip flops and T-shirts. Occasionally I do find myself yearning for a cool breeze, or perhaps, a crisp fall day. Alas, I know these days will never come. The weather in KL is steady at around 90 degrees, 90% humidity. It [...]

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The Happy Ending

I have quite a vast collection of DVDs, but I have to admit, I like the ones with a happy ending the most. I am American, after all. I just can’t stomach anything that doesn’t work out juuust right in the end.
And when I say “happy ending,” I mean the lighthearted romantic comedy kind. [...]

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Photo Hunt: Steps

Back in October, Alex and I went to Bali for the first time. One of the things we loved most about traveling through the countryside was the stepped rice terraces. Bali is full of hills and mountains, all of which are covered in beautiful bright green rice, glimmering slightly because the rice needs a [...]

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Graduate School, Here I Come! (again)

I have spent the last 2 days rushing around trying to complete my application to Syracuse University’s MS Library and Information Science program.
Seeing as I already have an M.Ed., I wasn’t really planning on going back for another Masters, but this program at Syracuse seems really awesome – totally into 21st Century Literacy and very [...]

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The Dentist

One of the hardest things about living abroad is finding health care professionals that you actually like. Doctors, dentists, hairdressers, facialists, whatever.
There are always abundant lists of “English Speaking Doctors” for you to choose from, but you never really know if they’re any good or not until you make an appointment. And then you usually [...]

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