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"You should have known!" Don't you just hate people who say that? 7 million Americans abroad and only a few are even quas...

It's down to the wire, folks, and there are just four more days to file your Foreign Bank Account Reports (FBARs aka FinCen 114). Mine...

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” Salman Rushdie,  Imaginary Homelands: Essa...

"Political transnationalism is often characterized as from above (outreach by government) or from below (migrant-initiated)." ...

“It helps to resign as controller of your fate.” - Anne Lamott "Sortes meae in manu Dei sunt." ( My fate is in the hands of God ...

We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Then climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. ...

From the mail I'm getting, and the comments and questions I see on the on-line conversations I follow, many of you are assiduously worki...