Posted in Expat Living, Island life, Seychelles on February 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I know we’re all getting tired of the Miguel the Violent Nut Case story, but since he’s yet to run out of stupid, and since some readers have voiced interest in follow-up, there’s more. Sigh …
Surprise, surprise … he’s taken down the offending post on his blog, done a rewrite he must think casts him [...]
Posted in Expat Living, Island life, Seychelles on February 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’ve recently been contacted by a couple seriously considering a move to Seychelles, as this to them seems like the paradise they’ve been looking for. In trying to answer questions in all honesty and convey the true essence of life here … or at least the true essence of life here as I know it [...]
Posted in American thoughts, Celebrities, Celebs, Expat Living, NaBloPoMo, The USA from the outside in, tagged OJ Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, 2000 presidential election, Reality TV, Iraq war on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s a big dividing point between American expats as far as maintaining a capacity to take in and digest present day events in the country, the 12th of June 1994.
You are forgiven if the date doesn’t set bells clanging, as events of the day easily float to the bottom of the cesspool that started filling [...]
Posted in American thoughts, Expat Living, Family, NaBloPoMo, The USA from the outside in on November 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I am thankful. I am SO thankful. I am really, really thankful.
I am thankful for my life, the fact that I have had one and that I still have one. The emergency heart surgery in Singapore in ‘99 was a close shave that puts me in mind every day of what a gift each [...]
Posted in Entitled to opinions, Expat Living, NaBloPoMo, The USA from the outside in on November 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I must be seriously out of my ever-lovin’ mind, but I’m thinking about starting up another blog once this whole NaBloPoMo business is finished for the year. This one is good for a lot of release and stuff of interest (to me), but doesn’t focus, and my pro blogs are all about adoption, a topic [...]
Posted in Entitled to opinions, Expat Living, Family, Island life, NaBloPoMo, Seychelles on November 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
There was a boat bopping around Isle Therese the other day … I watched it for a while from my veranda … a big, white, sleek thing with a helicopter pad on the back complete with helicopter.
Now, thought I, isn’t that exactly what everyone needs? A big white mutha of a well-slung vessel complete [...]
Posted in American thoughts, Expat Living, Family, Island life, NaBloPoMo, Seychelles, tagged holidays, November, Thanksgiving, turkey on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
November is a tough month for me under any circumstance. Following directly on the heels of a Halloween that isn’t in this country, we have a Thanksgiving that isn’t anywhere I’ve lived since 1993.
Thanksgiving is … was … probably my favorite holiday; all about family and food, but without the pressure of gifts and parties. [...]
Posted in Expat Living, Island life on October 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today is the fourth of October, and for those not in the know, it celebrates the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Why would a reformed Catholic like myself have any inkling that this date has ties to an animal-loving, robed and haloed guy of the blessed persuasion?
Because in the village of Baie Lazare honoring St. [...]
Posted in England, Entitled to opinions, Expat Living on July 8, 2007 | 13 Comments »
As regular readers know, my adored husband is a half-Brit, which is not the same as a half-wit, but not totally unrelated.
Yes, that’s extremely unkind and so veddy-veddy not PC, but Hey!, some things just must be said.
Mark was born in England and passed some of his childhood there, but most of his growing was [...]
Posted in Expat Living, Family, Island life, Seychelles on June 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow is the last of the June holidays in Seychelles … June being THE month for them with a total of three days dedicated to the celebration of political events and one religious day off … the 29th of June, Independence Day.
On the day in 1976 the British lowered their flag, folded it up, and [...]
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