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Has anyone posted a blog on British English vs. American English yet? I haven’t found one so I shall start one 😀 My interest in the two dialects started when I came to America with a very ‘British’ accent and […]

Hmmm…I just talked to my uni best friend about our accents today, so I thoughtthat I would write a post about an accentMy accent is hybrid, mostly filled with (almost) neutral American and Korean accents, with […]

😉 Okay, maybe not entirely, but you know what I mean. Originally, I wrote this in a letter to a friend this morning. But later, after I thought it over, it’s a perfect illustration of the difference between a TCK […]

This is one of those stories that one person writes a section of the story and submits it and then someone else …. The story will be a Harry Potter buy with non of the actual Characters and NOT the same plot but […]

I like to blog so writing bios is something I have done for quite awhile. But I never really realized until recently, just how important that has been in dealing with issues of identity. Until I discovered I was a […]

When I came to England from Nigeria for the last time, I remember putting together a collection of different things, a little box of memories. Bizarrely not of things from Africa but of holidays and events that […]

Sometimes I look back and realise I have lost perspective on life. At some time or other I have done things to protect myself like withdrawing which in turn has hurt people who care about me. I have seen […]

Being a TCK can have it’s moments. Probably one of the more difficult areas to deal with are the taboo words and gestures used in various countries. The word thongs can mean flip flops, or ladies underwear […]

My good freind Rachel is so funny, she wants to know where I haven’t lived.

During my years as an outcast within my own country, I’ve had a lot of time to think about this. For me, geography is always a landscape […]

I am a quirky soul in your eyes
You don’t know how to classify me
Your classifications are right
Your classifications are wrong

You say that I’m an American
I do act and think like an American sometimes
Many of […]

He wasn’t a TCK or even a CCK. But I think all of us can relate to this man’s marginalization by society. Most of us TCK’s have a tendency to want to “give back”, to “volunteer”, to “serve” humanity and the world […]

by JRR Tolkien

Thanks to Bilbo, Frodo was very much a “global nomad”. And thanks to him and the Fellowship, (also made up of global nomads), all of Middle Earth was saved.

Turn on your speakers and open a new […]

It’s true and I am finally ready to confess it to the world. I’ve always known this. And I’ve told my daughter this. Few people believe me, even the conspiracy theorists refuse to acknowledge this simple fact. (I […]

I hope the ever present “Nobody” (the boyz at Langley) back east doesn’t get all excited about this blog entry and send out the “ground troops”. For me, “HQ” is my parents house, and my identity is none of their […]

Hey TCKs. I found another article about traveling. This one is more US-centric but that doesn’t matter. It could all help us in the long run:

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Hey all TCKs! Here’s a rather useful article from the NY Times regarding damaged bags!! Read the comments as well!

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/how-to-deal-when-a-damaged-bag-greets-you-at-baggage-claim/

All CIA kids (and other “spy kids”) will understand and appreciate the Moscow Rules. I’m sure anyone involved with any other western intelligence agency will recognize them also.

For those who are not familiar, I […]

From Bitter to Sweet.

Militia entrenched in the veins of war,
virus and toxins to even the score.
Denial and curses now blacken the air,
“Slaughter awaits you ‘merica, beware!”

Migraine starts with the throb of […]

I just realized why I always “hate” christmas. It’s not because I don’t love Christmas. I do! I’m Eastern Orthodox (long story but I converted to that and this is apparently “typical” TCK behaviour, so […]

Carried up to skies of cobalt blue,
Midst ivory white where the sun sits
Bowing lower in the sky
Until it stretches forth its brush
To paint out the colours of day with sunset hue
and rest its head beyond the […]