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A Life Shaped by Five Languages
If languages shape us in different ways, speaking five of them probably means I look like a piece of Gaudí’s 'trencadis' mosaic.
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Monica Nastase
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How We Bastardized the Meaning of Travel
Travel used to be about the road travelled. Now, it’s about the destination.
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Monica Nastase
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42 Years Old: The Age of Visibility
About coming of age, again and again — and navigating bullies and envy while becoming visible.
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Monica Nastase
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The Friendship Challenge When Living Abroad
Are expats better at making friends than locals, forced by their migrant circumstance?
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Monica Nastase
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Immigration is a Form of Entrepreneurship
How the two pursuits are alike and both require these five qualities. As an immigrant, you bootstrap your own life as opposed to a business idea.
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Monica Nastase
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The Migrant Questionnaire #1 | Barbs
"Some people track their age in years but I like to track mine in places visited. I would be 10 countries old."
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Monica Nastase
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Barbs Honeycutt
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The Elusive Meaning of Home
11 definitions of home from you, fellow Substackers - plus my own take in the form of an essay.
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Monica Nastase
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Paris Is My Hometown. America Is My Home.
My very first evening in the US at 23 years old made me ponder that I was sitting upside down, quite literally, from everything I had known until then.
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Monica Nastase
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The Paradox of Being Called a 'Foreigner' In A Melting-Pot Metropolis
About various ways we (nick)name migrants and the politics behind labels for foreigners.
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Monica Nastase
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Getting My Hands Dirty: Thoughts on Reading the Sunday Paper
Having an almost spiritual experience of reading an analog newspaper, and comparing the experience with the digital doom scrolling.
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Monica Nastase
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The Power of Family Photos to Keep Us Rooted
How old family photos connect us to our roots, no matter where we are in the world.
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Monica Nastase
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‘Where are you from?’ | Every immigrant's nightmare question
This question fosters stereotyping, and reduces people's complexity, even when it’s well-intended. I thought of an alternative.
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Monica Nastase
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