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Blog postConfession: I’m really slow about putting my Christmas decorations away. I mean, what’s-wrong-with-you slow. Like everyone, I find it to be a tedious, time-consuming chore, and under my proudly waving attention-deficit (“attention-fabulous”) flag, I will always avoid the tedious and time-consuming. In my defense, let me point out that for many years we would cut our trees in the actual forest, O-Tannenbaum style. As Clark Griswold can testify, a tree in the forest looks a lot smaller than it
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Blog postI’ve reached that age where among many of my friends I’m the authority on “the way things used to be.” What I find myself saying over and over is no, our civil discourse didn’t “used to be” like this. I’ve had plenty of friends of different political persuasions throughout my life, people with whom I disagreed over policy. Our objectives were the same—health, happiness, opportunity. Our differences were in what policies we each thought would do the best job of delivering those things. We coul
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Blog postI had an interesting conversation the other day with a woman by the name of Barb at the Texas Department of Public Safety. You see, my mother has recently moved from out of state to live with us here. She arrived in a very useful, very new, low-mileage Toyota Camry that she expected to use for driving herself to Trader Joe’s, her hair appointments, and an occasional trip to the doctor. (So much for expectations. Remember hair appointments? Incidental outings? Old people in public? Nowadays sh
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Blog postWhile I lived in Saudi Arabia, drivers of our compound’s shopping bus were given a new rule: drive only on major roads. Yes, Riyadh traffic is terrible. Yes, the main roads at midday are snarled and slow, and the trip back home from many typical destinations could run close to an hour. And yes, you could save a lot of time by cutting through a neighborhood here and there.
Riyadh traffic, just, you know, normal
This rule wasn’t instituted as a gesture of respect for neighborhoo -
Blog postIf you like water, sun, and Thai food, I have a genius solution for you: go to Thailand. If you also like peace and quiet, go to Khao Lak, north of (translation: well out of) Phuket. That’s where you can take a cooking class from Ann, who picked us up at our hotel, asked what kinds of things we wanted to eat, then took us to the local market to shop for our ingredients.
Khao Lak Market
Ann elegantly slicing onion
Ann was the first person outside the hotel we were reall -
Blog postShow of hands, please: anyone remember a kid-moment of wondering whether other people saw the same thing you did when you called the sky blue? I mean, do we all just use the same word, but we’re all seeing something different?
I know I’m not alone. I’m Google-confirmed. Googifirmed. Start typing “Do we all see” and “the same colors” autofills from there. So don’t pretend you aren’t curious.
The Google results are all about eye and light science, but I wonder more about languag -
Blog postI mean, WTH happened last night?
Actually, I will tell you what happened last night because it happened on television and some of you may have more balanced lives than I do. To recap: A fairly normal Bachelor season with below-normal ratings for the cause of boringness ended in the normal way, with a deeply conflicted bachelor finally choosing and proposing to one Poor Girl, and with the couple staggering giddily away powered by champagne and hormones. And then he broke up with her tw -
Blog postAnybody else out there feeling like skirting around the public square and just going home, closing the curtains, and staying inside? Not just me?
Much as I’ve tried to drag myself into it the last couple of seasons, I’m finally going to admit that I just don’t have it in me to do a weekly Bachelor blog these days. Don’t get me wrong—I’m still watching, still playing my fantasy league, still happy to talk about what’s going on and what makes these people tick (always), but my soul just -
Blog postWe just moved house three weeks ago, and I have a doctor appointment tomorrow as part of the whole process of getting established in a new city. It’s a dermatology visit, a routine skin scan for a pale girl who grew up in Southern California in the era of baby oil sunning and that blonde, big-eyed Coppertone baby having her tan line revealed by the puppy tugging on her bikini bottom. I’m pretty sure she’s gone now, replaced by a little girl in a swim shirt and a hat and sunglasses with her mo
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Blog postYears ago I saw a news magazine piece on wealth—more particularly, examining what it took to feel wealthy. A family with a combined annual income of $250,000. Another couple bringing in $1 million a year. Another, $6 million. I’ll jump straight to the conclusion: None of them classified themselves as wealthy. More than any absolute number, what mattered was the point of reference. As long as these people could see others around them having more, they weren’t rich. No matter how high people cl
Books By Margo Catts
Once Upon an Expat
Jun 6, 2016
by
Lisa Webb ,
Jasmine Mah ,
Leah Evans ,
Amanda van Mulligen ,
Carole Clark ,
Amelie Sanchez ,
Nitsa Olivadoti ,
Ashly Jeandel ,
Kathryn Streeter ,
Gabrielle Yetter ,
Camille Armantrout ,
Stephanie De La Garza ,
Olga Mecking ,
Lizzie Harwood
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