Welcome to Motherhood Adventurehood
A collection of personal stories and experiences from my exploration of my expat life. Currently writing from Mumbai, India.
Please note: I have changed the name of my Substack from Wide Eyes to Motherhood Adventurehood (on May 1st) as I think this new name better reflects the content.
This is the 4th or 5th iteration of an ever-evolving blog. Under the name Milla Light, my writing had very humble beginnings as a series of rambling email updates back in 2004 when, as a student in Taipei, I had plenty of time on my hands; time I used to take full advantage of the vibrancy of my surroundings, and to document the adventures I had. My name is Milla, and my writing was a lighter version of me, see?
Fast forward to 2023, by way of Beijing, London, New York, Beijing again, Recife and Yangon, where I find myself time poorer but just as eager to explore my new home in Mumbai. This time around, I hope not only to record things for my own reference, but also perhaps to bring together a useful collection of anecdotes that might help another traveler/ mother/ visitor.
Being, as I am now, a mother to a perpetually effervescent toddler, I find my adventures less as a result of thrill-seeking, and more in the course of trying desperately to maintain some kind of ‘normal’. Whatever that is, in this almost-post-COVID world.