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Because I’m awesome, duh.
In our forties, my husband and I packed up our lives and sold whatever was left over to build a new future in a different country. Most of my essays here will focus on the expat experience living in The Netherlands while embracing the changes and challenges to my perceptions of how life “should be.”
I’m also an author, trying to hone my craft and sell copies of my novel - but if you subscribe, I’ll give them away! Ever since the lid came off, I can’t stop myself so I also publish playlists and hold a space for whatever else that doesn’t fit any of those other categories (requests are WELCOME!)…
If you’ve ever wanted to live abroad, be a patron of the arts, or have so much discretionary that you can’t help giving some away, you can’t go wrong with The World According to Gillian Fletcher.
Who is Gillian Fletcher?
I’m the first to admit that my name is NOT Gillian Fletcher, but I do ask you to call me that. The name itself was a gift from a mentor for whom it served as voice outside her own. I spent a lot of years telling myself I couldn’t be a writer and I spent equally as many feeling like the world didn’t want someone “like me” to share themselves fully.
Somehow, under cover of Gillian, I have found a voice that speaks more confidently. I’m like your favorite drag queen in that regard…
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