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The House I Grew Up In Is A Museum of My Childhood
My childhood one-bedroom apartment showcases artifacts from different periods of my life, and a mother stuck in time with them.
Jan 7
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Monica Nastase
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The Migrant Gaze
About the perspective we get when we are never fully inside a culture, but also no longer entirely outside of it either.
Apr 27, 2025
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Monica Nastase
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The Famous Expats Who Shaped 20th-Century Culture
Writers, artists and thinkers who established new creative lives in Paris, New York and California.
Mar 22, 2025
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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.
Aug 18, 2024
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Monica Nastase
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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.
Jul 21, 2024
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Monica Nastase
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A Life Shaped by Five Languages
Jul 21, 2024
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Monica Nastase
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How We Bastardized the Meaning of Travel
Aug 18, 2024
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Monica Nastase
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42 Years Old: The Age of Visibility
Jun 2, 2024
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Monica Nastase
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The Friendship Challenge When Living Abroad
Jan 7, 2024
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Monica Nastase
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The House I Grew Up In Is A Museum of My Childhood
My childhood one-bedroom apartment showcases artifacts from different periods of my life, and a mother stuck in time with them.
Jan 7
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Monica Nastase
12
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You Can Only Go So Far On Your Own (2025 in Review)
What do these three have in common: a career coach, a ginger cat, and a book editor?
Dec 21, 2025
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Monica Nastase
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The Strawberry House: A Garden of Eden in An Industrial City
An urban homestead and the garden where my family history took root.
Dec 7, 2025
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Monica Nastase
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The Migrant Questionnaire
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The Migrant Questionnaire #4 | Paul
"I went on a gap year, and life happened!"
May 9, 2025
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Monica Nastase
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Paul Moxness
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The Migrant Questionnaire #3 | Catriona
"All that propaganda about things like: if you step out of your comfort zone, the world will meet you and it will be amazing. It doesn’t work like…
Mar 7, 2025
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Monica Nastase
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Catriona Knapman
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The Migrant Questionnaire #2 | Edward
“When you find yourself at a ‘home’ which doesn’t feel like home, it brings into question your whole sense of identity.”
Oct 1, 2024
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Monica Nastase
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Edward
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Millennial Monica
Essays exploring what it’s like to live a multicultural life and not lose yourself along the way. From a 4-country migrant and permanent foreigner.
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