An Italian with a passion: How to live the Dolce Vita, with Barbara Conelli
Barbara Conelli is a woman on a mission — a mission to bring, as she puts it on her website, “Fantastic Fearless Feminine Fun into women’s lives.” A prolific writer, with one book already published...
View ArticleCLEOPATRA FOR A DAY: Fashion & beauty diary of Third Culture Kid Tiffany...
Let’s all line up and curtsy to the 16-year-old German-American Tiffany Lake-Haeuser, who has just disembarked on the shores of The Displaced Nation. Born in New York City to German parents, this Third...
View ArticleAsk Mary-Sue: Dyngus Day and other great excuses for partying
Mary-Sue Wallace, The Displaced Nation’s agony aunt, is back. Her thoughtful advice eases and soothes any cross-cultural quandary or travel-related confusion you may have. Submit your questions and...
View ArticleLESSONS FROM TWO SMALL ISLANDS — 2) Keep calm and learn to enjoy imperfection
I must have been born with a melancholy nature, because it didn’t take me long to work out that we live in an imperfect world. Imagine my discomfort, then, when I realized that many of the people who...
View ArticleExpats, here’s how to enrich your lives in 2013: Choose a mentor or a muse!
Expats and other world adventurers, let me guess. You have you spent the past week making resolutions about staying positive about your new life in Country X; indulging in less of the local stodge;...
View ArticleWhere’s the fairest of them all? Fashion & Style in Brazil vs. Britain
It’s March, a month when residents of the Displaced Nation turn to fashion ideas, beauty tips and other frivolities we’ve gathered from our travels. To kick off the discussion, we’re delighted to have...
View ArticleLESSONS FROM TWO SMALL ISLANDS — 6) Keep Calm and Run a Bath
I didn’t think seriously about fashion and beauty until I, an American East Coaster, became a resident of two small islands: Britain and then Japan. Both London and Tokyo are fashion capitals, and...
View ArticlePay no mind to the travel experts — beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Matador Network published an article last month bemoaning “travel pornography” — in other words, the kinds of photos one often sees in polished travel guides, making an exotic place look so much better...
View Article4 observations after 3 years of holding up a mirror to expat (& repat) life
Earlier this month, I wrote a post in celebration of the Displaced Nation’s third birthday, which occurred on April 1st. For three years we’ve held up a mirror, as it were, to what we’ve been calling...
View Article10 summer hacks picked up from an expat (& repat) life spanning Japan, the UK...
New York City, where I now live after years of being an expat on two small islands, the UK and Japan, had a particularly brutal winter in 2014. You would think I’d now be in the mood for summer. But...
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