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Alla Z

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Engage

Portugal Chronicles: Three Years In

What surprised me over the last three years

Jul 5, 2024

View from Sintra mountains, Portugal.

Jul 5, 2024

Ditch the Playdates and Have More Fun with Your Kids

Thinking of having a child, or already have a little one? Think of what you want your family culture and hobbies to be. I am not talking…

Feb 27, 2024

Ditch the Playdates and Have More Fun with Your Kids

Feb 27, 2024

Published in
Babel

How to Learn a Language Quickly

While I am not a linguist or a teacher, languages are something I think and talk about often, and, in fact, in three different languages. I…

Sep 30, 2023

How to Learn a Language Quickly

Sep 30, 2023

Portugal Chronicles: Two Years In

Sometime in late July 2021, I could be seen (and heard) yelling into my phone at a gas station just north of Cascais, Portugal. I was…

Jun 30, 2023

Portugal Chronicles: Two Years In

Jun 30, 2023

Can language be a compass at the crossroads of cultures?

Recently, someone posted a question in a social media group for ex-pats in Portugal. Where could he live on two thousand dollars per month…

Nov 28, 2021

Can language be a compass at the crossroads of cultures?

Nov 28, 2021

Why I left the USA

In April of 1992, I emerged from an airplane at the JFK airport. I was 13 at the time — quite a disorienting age in itself. Adding to the…

Oct 5, 2021

Why I left the USA

Oct 5, 2021

Uncrossing the Atlantic

And becoming an immigrant squared.

Aug 6, 2021

Uncrossing the Atlantic

Aug 6, 2021

Published in
Curious

Farewell Bend

Is it the last time we see the US as we know it?

Sep 18, 2020

Farewell Bend

Sep 18, 2020

Published in
The Startup

Children Aren’t an Embarrassing Career Impediment

Working parents should not minimize the way children affect our lives, especially now.

Jul 14, 2020

Children Aren’t an Embarrassing Career Impediment

Jul 14, 2020

Can I Ever Find Home?

It has been lost for a while, but maybe it can be rediscovered.

Mar 12, 2020

Can I Ever Find Home?

Mar 12, 2020

Alla Z

Alla Z

I try to live a story-worthy life. A bit of a vagabond, usually found in forests and bike parks. Hey, I even wrote a book: https://a.co/d/04xjzcjO

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