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Enchanted At First Sniff—Why Location Chemistry Matters… Places are just like people. They all have some good in them along with some bad… some embarrassing things they try to downplay in public… and things they proudly wear on their sleeve… They have good days and bad days. They can react to a person the same…

And You Thought Your Family Was Complicated… Could Royal Baby Archie be the herald of a new dawn for Americans overseas? I’ve been following his story with rapt interest… As Harry and I get ever closer to starting a family of our own, the consequences of an American born overseas who may not spend much…

Proof Of Existence (And Other Challenges) For A Third-Culture Kid I’ve recently been commiserating with one of our editors-at-large… She’s also a third-culture kid. Born in Singapore—with British and Canadian lineage—she was raised for much of her life in Asia and the Middle East. Like me, she has few real roots to any one place…

Properties shape us more than we know. Settling into my new apartment here in Paris stirred up memories of all the houses in my life—and how each one shaped my future. In Maryland, before moving to Ireland, we lived in five different homes, but none were very special to me. What was special was the…

Gone Surfin’  It started last Monday when I began emptying out my apartment here in Panama City. I looked at the bed where, four years ago—new to town—I had thrown myself down in tears… wondering what I had done… how I could have left my country, my friends, and my family behind… Now the tears…