As any expat or long-term traveler knows the adage “you can’t go home” is no joke. Things change- places, people, and most importantly you. You start to feel as if you’ve left little parts of your soul all over the world. Parts that only exist not only in that place, but that time as well….
I read Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sonntag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan a few years ago, and about halfway through the last chapter I had my mind blown. It was such a life-changing perspective that I still think about that book to this day. Has that ever…
I’ve come across a couple articles lately about living and thinking in two languages. One was from a French woman living in the States, and talked about the strangeness of writing in English. She used it to acclimate to her new home, and put some distance between herself and her work. This worked especially…