Home is where the heart is…

Home is where the heart is… …which for me is a bit all over the place, so I suppose I’m a citizen of the planet (cue Paul Simon

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TCK – a cultural identity crisis?

Third Culture Kids, ‘home’ and identity I can be brown, I can be blue, and now I’m a TCK, too! I have been reading about TCK’s, Third Culture

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Homesickness when there’s no ‘home’

Homesickness quotes When I posted a short piece about the word hiraeth, I included a list of quotes about homesickness. A sharp-eyed reader, Marilyn Gardner, pointed out that

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Quotes on homesickness

Quotes on homesickness and home The post “Where is Home?” prompted a comment from the Expat Archive Centre which mentioned the word hiraeth. They kindly linked to this

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Holidays and visits ‘home’ as an expat

Trips back to your home country How often do you travel back to your home country for holidays? Can you actually call them holidays? Expats who move regularly

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Where is home?

A tricky question Along with “where do you come from?” and “what do you do?”, the “where is home?” question is always a tricky one to answer when

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