My newest expat+HAREM post, “With/out borders”, is featured on their beautiful site for the next week.
My newest expat+HAREM post, “With/out borders”, is featured on their beautiful site for the next week.
My friend Catherine’s amazing expat+HAREM post “Death at a distance”, one of the most powerful essays I have ever read, has left me processing a great deal of unresolved grief.
Dear Readers, Just a quick note to let you know that the essay I wrote about life in Prague as an expat placed as a runner-up winner in the Transitions Abroad essay competition. The article, Living in Prague as an Expat: The Times They Are a-Changin', will be on their website for the next ...
Reflections on the magical and terrifying film “Where The Wild Things Are”.
The name on my birth certificate reads Sezin Piotruszewicz Menekshe Rajandran. I was named with the same initials as my grandfather on my father's side, SPM Rajandran. He died just months before I was born, ...
In 1990 Chris McCandless donated all of his life savings to OXFAM and went into the wild to live in the Alaskan outback. He had the feeling he didn't belong ...
The first in a series of reflections on the incredible Dialogue 2010, curated by Rose Deniz and on the topic of hybrid identities and location.
When I first moved to Europe going on seven years ago I was bummed that I felt they didn't really celebrate Halloween, American style. Dressing up, spider webs, pumpkin carving, creepy music, ...
I read my first Stephen King novel when I was 12 years old. The book was Carrie and the year was that of the Gulf War I, 1992. Thus began a love affair with King's books that has continued to shape my life until today. This ...
When I was a single twenty-something living in Spain it upset me to no end how difficult it was to make and integrate with a group of Spanish locals. I couldn't understand why locals wouldn't want to make a foreign friend and learn about someone's ...
Five years ago at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, I met an amazing Californian Phillipina woman and we became fast friends, seeing in each other kindred spirits. Interestingly enough, it was the same year I met Paolo Coelho who told me: "Always keep your heart open; it will bleed, but it will heal." ...
*It has been six weeks since my last post.*In the last six weeks I threw out my back, found out it wasn't my back that was the problem but rather Irritable Bowel Syndrome, watched season 1-3 of 'Medium,' and been on a detox diet of vegetables, rice and beans.*I've ...
They say that adaptation is one of nature's most painful of processes, and for the seasoned traveller, it is no different. After having not only travelled, but lived in many different places, one begins to realise that it is impossible to be the same person everywhere. Behaviours that are acceptable in America are ...
it's good that aside from tommy i may have a new friend here in istanbul, a person not a cat. of course, she would be the one person that none of the other ditzy english teachers like because she is older and far more worldly than them. we connected over the stray cats and ...
when i saw 'the elephant man' i felt i was him somehow. someone who never quite seems to fit in with the sea of people around him and someone who is always obvious no matter what he does to hide the fact. today after going to see a wonderful doctor who diagnosed my Middle ...
that things were not quite so bad before until we enter into an even worse situation, or go deeper into an existing one.drunk people are not wise no matter how much they think they are. they only get more glassy eyed, they slur their words and don't remember the simple things ...