by Desperate Swisswife | Apr 6, 2020 | Children, Family life, Kids, Pandemic
If you were feeling the energy (or reading the news), you probably knew that the lockdown was coming. And if you didn’t, no doubt you could read the situation from the pillaged supermarket shelves in the weeks running up to it. People have been religiously stockpiling...
by Desperate Swisswife | Feb 20, 2020 | Integration, Language
I first came to Switzerland, not for love, unusually — well at least not initially — but instead to learn the local language. I’d just graduated from university and was deciding what to do next with my life. Foreign languages had always intrigued me, and I knew...
by Desperate Swisswife | Dec 16, 2018 | Blog
Yesterday, I was watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills , where they were dissecting events and each other in the season finale (please don’t judge me!). Yolanda was being accused by another Real Housewife of being standoff-ish, upon which Brandi rushed to...
by Desperate Swisswife | Nov 25, 2018 | Blog
They say that it takes a village to raise a child, but what does it take to run a home? Here in Switzerland, all it takes is a ‘Swisswife’ — at least in the area of Switzerland that I live in. Because here, it’s the norm to be a ‘traditional’...
by Desperate Swisswife | Nov 14, 2018 | Blog
Desperate Swisswife was initially inspired by an article (left) that I wrote in 2005 for Swiss News, a now-defunct newspaper for the English-speaking community in Switzerland. The article was called The Housewife Conspiracy and related my experiences of inadvertently...