Tag: Expat Life
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A place I visited that felt like home.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Home has meant different things at different times in my life. Brazil is nothing like those homes, yet somehow it has felt like home from the very beginning.
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Daily Writing Prompt 13-Sep: What’s the Longest Trip You’ve Ever Taken?
Reading Time: < 1 minute `My longest trip was to Brazil: nearly 24 hours of travel and, once, a two-month stay that blurred the line between work and vacation.`
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The Week In Review 24-Aug: Dispatches from Rio: A Week of AI, Satire, and Saturday Reflections
Reading Time: 9 minutes A look back at the week on BeingKevin, featuring Brazil, history, books, TV, retirement, humor, technology, family, and life abroad.
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The Hidden Cost of Living the Dream
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a hidden cost to being an Expat. Everything has a cost.
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One of My Favorite Spots — GoCoffee Brazil
Reading Time: 2 minutes GoCoffee Brazil is one of my favorite retirement routines, with great coffee, pão de queijo, coxinha, and the perks of being a regular.
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Daily Writing Prompt 22-Aug: What’s a cultural tradition from your country that you love?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAmerican Thanksgiving from the perspective of an American living in Brazil, and why some traditions are harder to leave behind than others.
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Who Invented the Airplane? The Wright Brothers vs. Santos-Dumont
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor more than a century, Americans and Brazilians have disagreed over one of history’s greatest inventions. Did the Wright Brothers achieve the first true flight in 1903, or did Alberto Santos-Dumont earn that title with his publicly witnessed flight in 1906? The answer depends on how you define aviation history.
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Pão de Queijo: Why Brazilian Cheese Bread Became My Favorite Snack
Reading Time: 2 minutesDiscover why pão de queijo, Brazil’s famous cheese bread, became my favorite snack and why you’ll find it in bakeries and cafés everywhere.
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Coffee With Kevin July 25 2026
Reading Time: 3 minutesJoin me each Saturday for honest conversations about retirement, life in Brazil, books, technology, leadership, and the lessons that still shape my life.