Entries by AlanPaul
Last Column — More repat blues
THE EXPAT LIFEAPRIL 24, 2009 Who Knew?Readers, Too, Were Surprised at the Difficulty of Coming Home *By ALAN PAUL The volume and intensity of response to my recent column on battling the repatriation blues caught me off guard. It is a subject to which virtually all expats who have returned home keenly relate, and almost […]
Check this out
The guy from Maplewood Online made this rather strange video, which begins and ends with me and Dave Gomberg’s band Mood Ring performing in town last week. My Beijing gigs are officially booked. CD information, to answer some questions: I will return from Beijing with a large stash. They are currently not available in the […]
Last column — moving abroad for a spouse
THE EXPAT LIFEAPRIL 10, 2009 It’s China, or the JobSpouses face difficult decisions when their partners are offered an overseas assignment By ALAN PAUL My work life was one of the many areas in which I was extremely fortunate during my China venture. I was able to maintain relationships with the two magazines I primarily […]
Back from Western jaunt
Mexican Hat rock in Monument Valley.We were there 20 years ago. Strange to thinkhow old we’ll be if we wait 20 more to return again. Jacob got up to go watch the sunrise with me.Sandstorm obscured the brilliant red fireball I rememberfrom 1989, but very cool and eerie and beautiful to be there.Jacob like the […]