Category: The Details

  • Liquidating your life in 30 days

    Liquidating your life in 30 days

    Getting a long-stay visa to move overseas took forever… until it didn’t. The visa was approved and arrived in the mail around the first of February. The overseas apartment rental (contingent on our visa approval) started March 1st, so I technically had about 30 days to pack, move, and sell (or donate) everything a family…

  • Understanding how it came to this

    Understanding how it came to this

    Every day, I’d wake up, read the news, and see one more metaphorical (or literal) dumpster fire burning somewhere in America. It got to the point where I stopped reading U.S. news outlets and only read international news, but sadly, Americans kept providing fodder for their readers too. A (Flaming) Hot Mess Regardless of your…