Secure in the Fog of Re-entry
Transition is no joke. I don’t care if you’re single, married without kids, married with littles, or married with older kids. IT’S HARD. One year...
Category: Parenting
The Importance of Being Father
I love my Dad. He has always been my biggest cheerleader, the one I am able to receive criticism from and the one who can talk me off the...
6 Reminders for Our TCKs
As a mom of three third culture kids, I find myself saying many of the same things over and over. In our home, these conversations are lovingly called “mom...
Standing on the Fence
The past couple of weeks one of the neighbor boys came over to play almost every day. Earlier this afternoon I heard him in the street and thought he...
Loving Our Kids Through Transition
“Mom, I really miss my friends.” We’d moved to the Middle East a few months before, and my oldest – then 3. 8 years old – was really struggling...
The Mystery Box and Resurfaced Wisdom
A little over two years ago as we prepared to move back to Texas, we were packing and purging stuff from a decade’s worth of our life in China....
The Enneagram and Me
The room was dark when I scooped up the scattered shoes and sprinkled them into the bench by the back door. The host of the podcast I was listening to...
Hunting For Fun
For several months after moving to Cambodia’s noisy, crowded capital city, life in our third-floor apartment felt like a tile and cement prison. Factor in two little ones, new culture,...
But What’s So Different about Being an Expat Family, Anyway?
My twins are seniors and our conversations have naturally turned toward university choices. For my family, of course, that includes conversations about America and culture, home and upbringing. We moved...
Confessions of a Black Sheep
If I could go back in time to the moment I arrived on the field with my first baby in tow, I would pull myself aside and give this piece...
