Coming Down the Mountain

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Banking as an Expat

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 I've lived semi-permanently outside my home country off and on for twelve years. In this time, I've never opened a bank account out...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Apartment Living, Airbnb Style

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 My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is The Expat Life. My husband and I began our expat journey in February, 2010, when we sold e...
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Monday, March 9, 2026

My Theme for the A to Z Challenge

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My theme for the Challenge this year is The Expat Life. I will post every day but Sunday in April about living as an American Expat in (most...
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Saturday, February 21, 2026

What are we reading?

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 My pattern is to read two books consecutively, one non-fiction and one light fiction. Which one gets picked up depends on my mood and energ...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

A Week in Mexico City

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Hello again, Mexico! I flew back in January and spent a week in Mexico City at this amazing hotel from the early 1920s, in a bustling, upsca...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

From AOL to Substack

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 Substack is to Blogger like Tik Tok is to writing letters. Modern, trendy, culturally relative. I follow a few interesting Substacks and th...
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Monday, December 8, 2025

It's been 9 months

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 Nine months, as long as it takes to grow a baby, I've been missing from the blog world. I don't like that and I resolve to do bette...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

I Never Thought I'd See the Day

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 You can tell my age from this title, one of those old expressions I remember hearing from my mother, grandmothers and aunties. I love these...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025

The Glad Game

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 I love reading old classics. What I'm reading now is Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Parker. First time reading it although I've seen the ...
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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Dengue Fever

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 Tuesday, Sept. 3 was my last day in Mexico. My daughter and son had come to help me with the move. My son left on Sunday, and my daughter a...
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Karen Jones Gowen
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A traveling Nonny. Writer. Editor. Owner, WiDo Publishing. Exclamation point addict in recovery. With extreme restraint I managed to write this bio without a single exclamation point.
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