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Staring at the sun — and 3 little “nothing” moments in my displaced life
Yesterday in San Francisco, at the corner of Folsom and 8th, I saw a middle-aged man holding up a sheet of dark glass and staring at the sun through it. “It’s beautiful,” he said to me as I passed him...
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Living La Dolce Vita with Heather Hamilton — Writer, Sailor & Adventurer
One year ago almost to the day, Heather Hamilton and her husband cast off their docklines in Annapolis, Maryland, in their 40-foot ketch. Since then, they’ve covered over 3,500 miles, up the east coast...
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THE DISPLACED Q: What’s the most delicate flavor you’ve sampled on your travels?
In a month where many of our posts have explored La Dolce Vita, I’ve been posing a series of questions to nomadic types on the sensory delights the wider world has to offer. Week after week, we’ve seen...
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For expat novelist Laura Graham, even a dark Tuscan alley has La Dolce Vita...
“Down a Tuscan Alley” — when I first heard the title of Laura Graham’s debut novel about an Englishwoman in Tuscany, I assumed it would be a thriller or mystery. Something nefarious would happen down a...
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RANDOM NOMAD: Patricia Winton, Crime Writer, Expat in Rome & Lover of La...
Place of birth: In a farmhouse belonging to my paternal grandparents near Pelham, Tennessee, on a snowy December night Passport: USA Overseas history: Italy (Marina di Pisa, Livorno, Rome): 1969-70;...
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Catching up with this year’s Random Nomads over the holidays (3/3)
It’s Christmas Day and the holiday party continues for the expats and other global voyagers who washed up on the Displaced Nation’s shores in 2012. Remember all those Random Nomads who proposed to make...
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The 10 Muses of Expat & International Adventure Writing and their 5 most...
Greetings, Displaced Nation-ers! Ready for a little more intellectual stimulation? A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Great Thinkers who can help with task of embracing the well-traveled life and...
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Trevi Fountain blesses American woman’s coins, granting her true love, a new...
While an expat in Japan, I mastered the ritual of tossing coins into the offering box, or saisenbako, at the Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple while clapping twice (to attract divine attention) and then...
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For this peripatetic Sardinian writer who has settled down (for now) in Rome,...
Greetings, Displaced Nationers who are also photography buffs! “A Picture Says…” columnist James King is still away, so I am filling in again. My guest this month is Angela Corrias, a well-traveled...
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EXPAT AUTHOR GAME: Chandi Wyant’s algorithm for “Return to Glow: A Pilgrimage...
Hello, Displaced Nationers—or should I say ciao in honor of our special guest, Chandi Wyant, player number three in our Expat Author Game? Born in California, Chandi has lived in Qatar, India, Italy,...
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