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Distance, like everything else, is relative. The Earth is round after all.
“It’s just a plane ride away”, I heard my husband say when I complained about how far we would be from everyone we knew when we moved to […]

Here’s my latest guest post. Please read it if you are a TCK and transitioning to university or college. There’s 10 great tips there too.
read: transitioning globally to university

We have now been in Perth for 6 weeks. We struggled to get things done in a timely manner in “Wait Awhile”. So, in order to help others struggle less and get things done slightly quicker, I compiled a list of […]

Dear fellow TCK’s 🙂 I am currently a master student in Oxford, who would like to invite you to participate in an interview researching:
TCK’s as a by-product of globalization and their challenges and potential […]

Parents are weird. I think its safe to say that’s a fairly universal truth, yes?
But not many of my non-TCK friends have the issue of actually fighting with a parent over whether or not the kid is ‘patriotic’ […]

– Victoria, British Columbia
– Yangon, Myanmar
– Hanoi, Vietnam
– possibly Moreal, Canada
– In the redwood forest/ on the coast of California 🙂
– Portland, Oregon or Bend, Oregon
– Olympia, Washington
– […]

Check the post on my blog Interview with Apple Gidley on DrieCulturen blog
enter the giveaway before 30th June!

Resettling in Belgium was a conscious  decision. We decided that the kids, my partner and myself should to return back to Belgium after living abroad for 12 years. Now I am back with doubts wheather this was the […]

Do you have that craving to do or learn something new regularly? Well I do! Does it have anything to do with growing up as a TCK?
Read my blog on Time for something new….

A Third Culture Kid Life article that discusses the way TCKs are viewed by FCKs, and how we are handled by others. To view the article, click here to go to TCK Life.

So excited to hear Ruth van Reken speak several times this weekend.
Read more about the conference here. I have never heard so much about TCKs and met so many people who are interested in TCKs in one weekend. I […]

I wrote a post about loneliness 3 years ago.  And since then I do not believe I remember feeling it again.  I have since married, started a new job and am currently in the process of buying a house.

It’s […]

I noticed that I seem to post one blog post a year here in tckid. 2011, 2012, and this will be my 2013 post. God, time flies! I seem to also only check-in once a year. But it’s great because when I read my […]

Check this guestblog “An Ode to the Third Culture Kids”

Check my latest blog post:
Want to Know How to Prepare Third Culture Kid Teens for Adulthood?

Does anyone else get accused of lying a lot?
I don’t know why…
Just the other day, someone asked me where I got my earrings.
THEY ASKED.
I told them.
Yes. It DID involved a swamp festival in a bayou in the […]

Let me introduce you to Jessica Wen. She is the creative inspiration behind the “Third culture kids- Self Identity Accordion Books”.
I came across the project on the internet and I am really enthusiastic about it. […]

Hey there!!
I’m thinking of continuing my university studies in England or Florida, where I’m currently residing. Has anyone here studied at the U of Florida, Manchester or Leeds University? or is currently a […]

Chameleon, the Experiences of Global Citizens Choreography by Alaine Handa & Dancers Performed by Alaine Handa, Laura Lamp
Am I Home? Spoken Word Alaine Handa Spoken Word Excerpts from “Uniquely Me” by Alex Graham […]

Doing my doctoral thesis on the loss experience that TCKs have when they leave their parents home. My survey should provide some correlations between the loss experience, grief, resilience, and attachment to God. […]