Just In Case You Didn’t Get the Memo
I didn’t get the memo. You know, that memo that must’ve communicated, in an easy-to-follow format, just how to raise children—not only in a different culture but also living in the glass house of ministry. The one that must’ve noted how the spin on life would be much different than I could’ve ever envisioned for […]
From Noun to Verb
The Duty Free shop at Don Muang Airport will always carry a memory for me. We were walking past it, down toward gate 72 where our plane waited. After a week-long service trip to a border town with a group of students, we were ready to board our 90-minute flight to take us home. We […]
The Help We Need
For us cross-cultural workers, so far away from our mothers, we tend to mother ourselves — to hack and schedule and self-care our way into health and flourishing. And we can get pretty good at it. We are creative, resilient people, and we couldn’t keep going if we didn’t have some measure of endurance and […]
The Pain of Being Mother
I was excited to sign up for the topic of Mothering. I thought that since I had done a post about The Importance of Being Father I would do a post on the importance of motherhood. However, as I sat around processing and thinking through what to write, I kept hitting a wall. It’s funny […]
Questions, Challenges and Blessings
Talking about mothering Third Culture Kids is a bit like talking about the water in a river: it’s always in motion and no two rivers (or even two kids in the same family) are the same. So lets throw some of the variables on the table: where you deliver, where you live, how isolated you […]