Pink weather, health, houses, transport… and husbands?

Not only do we look at things through rose-colored spectacles but people as well. Our memories become selective as we choose what we want or need to remember about people nearby, far away and gone forever. Take for example, that elusive beast otherwise known as your partner. Have you ever noticed that when he or [...]

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Rose-colored kid stuff

When it comes to our children we have a very special rose-colored pair of glasses just for them. We use them to see ALL their flaws (when we are dealing with them at home), ALL their good points (when someone says something detrimental about them) and as expats, ALL they are ‘missing out on’. They [...]

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Feet in both camps

We always start with great intentions and move to a new location with our minds wide open. We promise to look at places and spaces with no judgement and accept things as they are, looking for the good in everything. The idealistic expat has the best intentions, and best intentions only have one foe – [...]

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Rose-colored everything

I recall an expat telling me once how her home country – which she never really liked much anyway – seemed so much more attractive now that she didn’t live there anymore… We are endowed with an amazing brain (of which we use less than 20%) that has amazing capabilities for both storage capacity and [...]

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Looking at – not through – our Rose-Colored Spectacles

This topic is going to be just a little hard to justify as you will (rightly) note that I tend to do it all the time. We all do. Tis a natural human tendency to compare one thing to another –  for example countries.  Comparison however, usually leads us to a decision… that one is [...]

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