In her recent blog for the UK’s Telegraph, author Apple Gidley tells us about the surprise visit of her daughter and granddaughter in time for the launch of her memoir Expat Living – Slice by Slice (Summertime, 2012).
“Global parenting, and grandparenting, has its drawbacks but the joy of the unexpected appearance of children and their children whether across a city or a continent knows no bounds,” she writes. ”… I was right when I wrote in my book that home for me is not in the bricks and mortar around me, but in my memories.”
Read the full blog here.
Expat Living – Slice by Slice is published by Summertime Publishing. Learn more about the book and its author here.
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Having met Apple Gidley at the 2012 FIGT conference in Washington, DC ,www.figt.org, I am not surprised that someone crossed the ocean to share in her big day. Beyond all the jokes, I am firmly convinced that over time expats develop a “relationship gene”that is different from the one “normal”, geographically stable people have. Either they become blasé, detached and no longer invest in a relationship, once they move on, or they grow a new muscle, keeping the relationship alive, beyond borders and continents. And this muscle makes you cross the ocean, for the sake of sharing important moments in your friends’lives – good ones and sad ones, alike. Apple definitely has this magic gene, and it has seeped in into her daughter’s DNA, as well. Wonderful ! Heartfelt congratulations from The Hague, I’d say – across the ocean.