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Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

October 30th, outsourced

I don't watch Entourage (edited two days later: I meant Empire, and as you can see, I really don't know what that is) and I don't know who Cookie is but I identified with this woman's quest to dress in a way that builds confidence (and helps her cope with Imposter Syndrome).

Bizarrely, this link is also from Cosmopolitan: what it's like to be the editor of that magazine's Middle East version (they can't publish the word "sex," for starters). I have always wondered about stuff like this, so this article was fascinating to me.

I am just waiting for this to be debunked in some way, because it seems too wonderful to be true: what America's immigrants looked like when they landed at Ellis Island. Is it possible they were all so dressed up in their national kit?

Yes, it's a Barbie commercial...but it's adorable. [HT Kaylee]

Literary Iceland revels in its annual Christmas Book Flood: "Normally, we give the presents on the night of the 24th and people spend the night reading."

The Persian Gulf may be too hot for survival in 2090 (or maybe not). [HT Kathy]

If you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic, too! [HT Jamie]

The flow towards Europe: the refugee crisis, visualized.

Random tip for packing/moving with kids

A sense of the European