Life is in the moving parts
There’s Some Place Like Home is a book of essays compiled over a six year span, covering our time in Cyprus and early days in Copenhagen. Some essays were originally posted on my blog, Wine and Cheese (Doodles), while others were written specifically for the book. All came from a deep desire to understand the places where we landed, even if that meant poking a little fun at both the where and the who–including myself.
It’s a Lot to Unpack is a deeper look into how the decision to move, what I call our international origin story, turned my life inside out. The book follows our physical journey from country to country as well as a parallel quest: to dig out the woman I left behind in on those New York City cobbles.
Although both books are set against a backdrop of a life on the move, the reflections and emotions within their pages are universal. We all love and grieve and worry and wonder. We all question our decisions from time to time, whether it’s to leave a job or have children, move houses or indeed move across an ocean for a partner’s job. Most of all, we want to feel like like we’re not alone in our experiences.
…a must for expats, but there are so many hard won lessons that will ring true to any reader, wherever they make their current home.
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Because being a parent, working, unemployed, or somewhere in the misty gray of the in-between, a partner or alone, where we are never really feels like what we thought it would. Honour’s words bring comfort, humor and value to the experience, wherever we may be on the road of life.
It took me fifteen years, three countries and two books to realize what really matters.
It doesn’t need to take you that long. I wrote you two books to help.
–DMH
Dina Honour 