Category Archives: Expat Life
The Love We Share: An American Expat Confronts Home from Afar (Part 1 of 2)
It is a difficult thing to be proud to be an American and to love my home right now. Because I am. And I do. From a continent, an ocean […]
Fear Is A Luxury
I was deemed an essential employee from the onset of the Corona panic. Military bases don’t close unless necessary. That is understandable, as many bases function as self-contained cities. For […]
Farewell
I woke up Sunday morning, March 1st to multiple missed Facebook Messenger calls. I knew what had happened without calling back. Grandpa had died. The entire family had been waiting […]
Where and What Is Home?
The first trip back to your home country after living abroad is both a dive back into the familiar and a jarring sense of waking from a very long dream. […]
11 Months in Germany And Turning A Corner
I’m working on a memoir about this whole experience and it’s turned into an anti-Eat Pray Love. I am aware of the parody that already exists, but I’m not meaning […]
Splendid Salamanca
When recently visiting my friend in Madrid, we decided to take a side trip. I’d already been to Toledo and Salamanca was a reasonably priced train ticket compared to other […]
8 Months in Germany and an Impromptu Trip to Esslingen
I had very good intentions of updating this blog at least once a month. Then I started a new job while ending the first one and I was back to […]
6 Months in Germany and Confronting the Future
After my classes ended in mid-February, I am back to being at home all day, every day. This is not to say my days aren’t busy. There is endless food […]
85 Days in Germany and We All Have One True Love
I’m in pretty good spirits I think, despite desperately missing home and my family and friends. I just turned 39 a few days ago and I got to celebrate with […]
Stephanie Golisch 