Around the 3rd of each month, I steel myself for a visit from the landlord. He’s a lovely man, really: kind, affable and reasonable. He never asks for inspections, trusts us with house decisions and has encouraged us to make his old home our for-now home, in every respect. He...
Read moreA Grecian Spiritual Retreat
I've owed this post to you for a long time. Way back in November - like, in the BT days (Before Trump) - I travelled to Athens, Greece with about two dozen other North American women who live and work in Europe. This is the second such spiritual retreat I've been on, where you awake to...
Read moreHere + Now (2016 Year-End Edition)
Here is Kansas, a dark and quiet house, a fire lit and the children sleeping. Now is cold and flu season, post-Christmas, pre-New Year's. The majority of our family has been felled by some sort of illness. Chesty coughs and strained voices abound, plus...
Read moreThe World Around My Kitchen Table
It surprises me even now, even still, how children who grow up in a culture outside their parents’ passport cultures somehow, instinctively, just know one another. They flock together, bound by the shared experience of being slightly displaced.
Read moreWe Must Not Look Away
Yesterday I considered writing on Christmas anxiety, but news from Aleppo plagued my thoughts as headlines declared “a complete meltdown of humanity” leaving at least 80 civilians dead. On an exploratory trip to migrant camps in Greece...
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