"Love is an action.  Never simply a feeling." ~ bell hooks Posts from HealthyExpatParent.com/Facebook Yeah I know, it is easy to reach...

Finally, another podcast! Shipping our kiddos off to university feels like a bit of a leap of faith, but it is what is supposed to...

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” ~ June Jordan  Posts from HealthyExpatParent.com/Facebook Monday Post: I don't know, it feels...

Our kids are amazing, aren't they? They are also like closed doors, especially as they get older. It gets harder and harder to get any...

"Machines will always outthink us. But they cannot out-love us. They cannot out-care, out-nurture, or out-compassion us. That is our...

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." ~ Joyce Meyer  "Adopt the pace of nature: her...

Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing. Same direction. Completely different energy. Posts from...

I do love a good run. Having been following this pattern since college days, it feels comfortable to fall into the rhythm that is...

Please see below for the episode posted in the last few weeks.  We’ll be back up to our normal posting pace as the Fall gets rolling....

“The problem may be huge, but your job is not to fix the entire problem. It’s to do what you can with what you have.” ~ Liz Murray Posts...

Wonder is not exactly knowing. “The world is full of poems,” Mary Oliver said, “but you have to be quiet to hear them.” An important...

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” ~ Sensei Ogui Posts from HealthyExpatParent.com/Facebo...

Why I wake up early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the field and into the faces of tulips and...

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within." ~ Ruby Dee Posts from HealthyExpatParent.com/Facebook...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM “… people can say whatever they want about us at any time, and we cannot control that. The...

Curiosity is catching your sleeve on the thorn of the thing you notice, and paying attention as you free yourself. Posts from...

Dear boys, We’ve talked so many times about change.  We’ve experienced big hard changes, our little family unit.  One of the prices we...

“I don’t think we talk enough about the in-betweens. The part when you know you want to change something but don’t yet know how, don’t...

I am a fixer, so I always want to fix things for people.  (I am also a people pleaser so when I get to help someone and it pleases them,...

Links to recent episodes on The Big Purple Blob, a podcast supporting Diplomatic families From July 189: Service Work, Purposeful work in...