No, we’re not moving – yet. It’s just another instance of my tendency to obscure words and their meaning in a rather pathetic attempt to be funny.

This blog has now been made smart-phone friendly, thanks to the plugin WPtouch iPhone Theme.

This WordPress plugin formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone, iPod touch, Google Android, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.

So go on, open up http://third-culture-kid.com in your favourite 3G- or WiFi-capable touch-based gadget. And let me know how you go – I’ve tested this on my iPhone, and am curious to know how it works on other phones.

Enjoy!

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For over a year now I’ve been struggling to keep posting on this blog.

I convinced myself this was because I’d moved on from the need to post here. That I’d integrated myself to a point where navel-gazing at my TCKness was not required.

The truth is I’ve been struggling because I feel I can’t write positively about my TCK experiences. I have several unfinished drafts that I feel I cannot publish because they don’t have happy endings.

I’ve been grieving for my losses. Grief is messy. It takes time. And grief is definitely not the sort of stuff that I’ve been brought up to write about publicly. Perhaps grief over someone who died. Or a lost job. But not something as vague and… inward-looking as being a TCK. Also, one must endeavour to write up-beat, up-lifting ’stuff’ that, if one is a Christian, chirpily points others to God.

But it’s time to be honest. So… I’ve decided that I will publish depressing blog posts when I feel like doing so. Because perhaps, when the grieving is done – and I’m back chirpily writing that up-beat, up-lifting ’stuff’ – people can read my journey, from start to finish, and find hope. Because, inescapably, I believe that even down-at-mouth posts contain heavenly whispers.

Because I’m real, and God’s real, and He doesn’t run from honesty.

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I have finally signed up for Twitter! My Twitter persona is TCKMusing.

I was looking for a way to publish short, inane, unconsidered thoughts which weren’t suitable for a blog post. Twitter seems ideal.

Over the next few weeks, I hope to put more Twitter-y integrations into this blog – and vice-versa.

But for now, to read those inane thoughts, you must follow me on Twitter by clicking here

If you tried to visit here over the last twenty-four hours, please accept my sincere apologies for the state this site was in.

My former web hosting company disappeared off the air yesterday, and it’s been a busy twenty-four hours as the site was transitioned to a new provider. I am impressed though at the time it has taken. Many thanks to Cove web hosting, and the wide range of Wordpress user advice out there.

I am now slightly better educated in the mysteries of MySQL, and ready for some sleep.

Yay!

Welcome to the new look for third-culture-kid.com!

I really liked the site’s original Mandigo which had the right mix of functionality and ease of use (for me). But it needed a colour-change, which I was not proficient enough to do myself.

I am experimenting with several themes (among them Atahualpa and Blue Grace). So far Blue Grace is the winner, but I need to work out sundry items like three columns and header spacings.

And yes, paper boats are still in. One day I’ll tell you all about them.