Staring at the sun — and 3 little “nothing” moments in my displaced life
Yesterday in San Francisco, at the corner of Folsom and 8th, I saw a middle-aged man holding up a sheet of dark glass and staring at the sun through it. “It’s beautiful,” he said to me as I passed him...
View ArticleDIARY OF AN EXPAT WRITER: Will she, or won’t she, on Christmas Day? (We’re...
This past summer Shannon Young took the decision to quit her day job to become a full-time writer in Hong Kong, where she lives with her half-Chinese husband. As regular readers of the Displaced Nation...
View ArticleDIARY OF AN EXPAT WRITER: There’s no place like home, especially when your...
Shannon Young, an expat writer based in Hong Kong, decided last year to quit her day job to become a full-time writer. Since October she has been writing a diary for us about this new phase of her...
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