During the academic year of 2014-2015, we moved to Saipan so that we could a) experience a new part of the U.S. we had never been to before, and b) travel. Besides the discoveries around our little sliver of tropical paradise, we also took three long trips off the island to go see parts of… Read More The Year We Tried to Quit Traveling (but couldn’t)
In the movies, if a character has just come to some earth-shattering revelation, or had their world completely turned upside down, the camera will do a sweeping pan, spin all around them as they stand still. Around them, the physical surroundings stretch out thin and distorted, while the music intensifies or makes the sound… Read More Transition Shock
Sometimes, when all the stuff you own is spread between 1) a distant storage locker, 2) a large roller-suitcase, and 3) a few boxes in USPS transit to an island really quite far away, you start to feel like you don’t have a place to call home. But then: you walk into what has got… Read More The Supermarket That Feels a Bit Like Home
