Humbled and extraordinarily “chuffed” by this feature on The Displaced Nation. 🙂
Dragonfruit cover and photo of Philippa Ramsden, courtesy Shannon Young. Purple dragonfruit by Mike Behnken (CC BY 2.0).
First of all, if How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit? True Stories of Expat Women in Asia isn’t on your Christmas list, it ought to be. As regular Displaced Nation readers will know, Dragonfruit is a new anthology edited by columnist Shannon Young. Shannon has been sharing a few tasty morsels with us over the past couple of months, and we have been repeatedly amazed at the window afforded on Asia by these expat women writers. This is the third installment. The first can be read here; the second, here.
—ML Awanohara
For this month’s excerpt, I’ve chosen a piece by Philippa Ramsden. A Scotswoman, Philippa is a development and humanitarian professional, writing in any leisure time. She had been to Asia only once when she stepped…
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Off to read! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Thank you so much, Catherine 🙂 Hugs to you 🙂
oh, Philippa,
this is just wonderful! I am so happy for you and very intrigued to read what’s next! thank you for letting us have a peek at what we have all been waiting for. much love, karen
Karen, thank you so much – your words lift my spirit and encourage me more than you can imagine.
Much love to you too, and wishing you a kind 2915
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