Raised on the Road

She'll always have her feet in so many places and her bags will always be packed, for having her heart split between two homes has never been easy but that's all she has ever known. She'll look at you in wander when you speak of your childhood, for having four walls that represent a home …

A Decision to Start University at 21

When I was a teenager, I thought I knew it all. My parents always drove me crazy, and they ~ didn't understand ~ me. I was a moody teenager who was lost and angry and expressed myself through theatre, music and writing. That was all I ever wanted to do. When we moved to Indiana …

Adulting Abroad

If you ask anyone that knew me when I was a child, they would probably first tell you about my bubbly personality and then lead into how I always wanted to be an adult. I did not play with toys but played with my imagination, and if I was not playing the part of a …

What No One Told You About Being an Expat

No one told you about the loneliness. Not the happy, look at the Eiffel Tower loneliness... the sitting on the couch in your tiny studio apartment when you realize you haven't spoken your native language in days loneliness. The loneliness of realizing that when you speak English, you start mixing all of the languages, and …

No Child Left Behind… But I Was: Building My Own Dream

Two Years Ago An article I wrote in the midst of my anger. "No child left behind, that's the American scheme" raps Macklemore in Ten Thousand Hours, words that to me, resonated as I drove by the high school I graduated from.  Eerie that I paid attention to those words at that moment, due to …