It's hard to stay in touch with the folks you grew to love.   Since repatriating 1.5 years ago it has been REALLY hard to keep in touch and maintain the wonderful friendships that we created. It was so busy and really ...

Missing all the delicious foods you discovered on your travels.  I'm an American, and in the last 10 years I have lived in Belize, Canada, Germany and France, with time back home in Arkansas in between. One of the things ...

Realizing "home" doesn't feel like it anymore  When I repatriated, from France to America, it hit me very hard that the place I had always referred to as "home" (New York) no longer felt that way. When ...

prepare your kids mentally for repatriation  Sometimes I think kids suffer more than adults when it's time to repatriate. If they were very small when you moved overseas they may not even remember ...