I should have a fairy tale for you today but that'll have to wait. I'm going to tell you a different kind of fairy tale instead. It's officially been one year since we left the US. Time flies. Sometimes it takes coach, like we did. At the time I dut ...
Hello, world. I'm still here. 2016 has been a really, really tough year for me. It's been downright wretched for the world at large. I'm not sad to see it go. The Move is still in progress. We've bought a house that we move into in February, and li ...
I'm sitting in a rental minivan, having dropped off the last of our cars with its new owner this morning. My apartment is being disassembled by highly competent movers. My bags are packed. Today is Moving Day 1. My apartment gets packed ...
Today is my last day at The Day Job. My coworkers are taking me to lunch--I chose the local BBQ joint, as American barbeque is not something I'll get a lot of overseas. (It'll be damn good South African braai, excellent but not the same.) My desk wa ...
This is not so much an informational post, because I have little in the way of information. It's a venting post. Because my mother is sick. A few weeks ago she started feeling nauseas, every day. She got progressively weaker and then went to the doc ...
I'm a list maker. I love pulling order out of chaos. And I love my dear friend, Google, for providing me with starter lists. My mother is also a list maker and I got to crib off her lists for the Leaving part of this move. But my Google Fu is failin ...
My mom is super organized, so she made her moving checklist before I did, and I got to crib off hers. One of the categories was "subscriptions." She meant magazine subscriptions. Services like AAA and AARP. That sort of thing. I only subscribe to Wri ...
I have a day planner, a physical one, quite a beautiful one, that I have not touched in months. It started well, with lots of good intentions. Then I reached a point where I was just lucky to make it through the day and maintaining the planner fell b ...
Here's how my bio now begins: Bronwen Fleetwood was born in South Africa, raised in New Jersey, and is now returning to South Africa, making her some kind of doubling-back expat. A #rexpat? Something like that. Everything's finalizing now--the move ...
