Bucket Lists may motivate us toward big dreams, but they can also distract us from smaller treasures. As I wrote on my personal blog, sometimes the best accomplishments don’t require a passport, a pool of money or some dramatic declaration So I rounded up 2016 Bucket Lists that will take you to all sorts of […]
Holidays & Celebrations
Ingredients For A Christmas In New Zealand
Perry Como was right: there’s no place like home for the holidays. Especially if you live and work abroad, moving your home to somewhere halfway across the globe means festive events will never be quite the same. However, Santa still delivers presents down here in New Zealand – though he does it in board shorts […]
Citizenship, Children, And Other Things To Be Thankful For
The U.S. Consulate in Auckland wanted to see my baby. Not in a photograph, not over a Skype interview, but in person. Only after documenting her physical presence (by pinching her pudgy cheek? Tickling her little toes?) could my native government guarantee that she was flesh – not some off-shore tax scam – and grant […]