I discussed expat life before smartphones, moving to the U.S., classism, being a tiger dad, American materialism and more.
Category: repat chronicles
‘No AC Until June’ Redux
Holding the line in 2026: can I keep refusing AC in a year that saw 92 degrees in April?
Expats Can Get Used to Anything (Snow Redux)
Alternate Titles: Snow, Tropics, and the Expat Condition. Beautiful for 10 Minutes: Learning to Love Snow Again.
Get In Where You Fit In … Or Don’t
Non-conformity and the intentional outsider, the men who don’t fit in, is a deliberate and recurring act, a choice to never settle, to be always on the hunt for the strange and new.
Robespierre without the Blood
From bread lines to medical bankruptcies, how the French Revolution and Gilded Age look like the American economy today.
Make the Crusades Great Again
Pete Hegseth’s tattoos spark a debate about the Crusades, which we don’t demonize in Latin America.