I've been thinking about community versus isolation. Community is the safety net that keeps us from hitting the ground. It's the people that we connect to, identify with and a place...
Category: Global Nomad
One of the greatest challenges for gobal nomads is finding community. Connecting with others is difficult for the nomad because not everyone understands his life. Finding kindred spirits takes...
A classmate of mine is no longer walking this earth. I feel the loss deeply. I wonder for the umpteenth time why the bonds between third culture kids are so strong. After all, it’s been...
For sixteen years, my husband and I with our kids were ex-pats assigned to Mexico. One of the interesting things about living as foreigners in another country is your relationship with other...
When Pete and I went to Mexico three years ago with our ministry team, we were inhaling tamales, atole, tacos arabes-- eating everytime we turned a corner. One of the main purposes of the trip was to...
Something strange happened on our trip to Peru. Like an itch you can't quite reach or the name just out of reach of conscious memory, I couldn't figure it out. On our first layover after leaving...