A Bottle of Tears in Cincinnati
I've moved back from the Philippines five months ago and since being home, I've been stuck in a weird loop of family crises and brief…
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Messy Vignettes on Moving On
I thought about Getting Bangs™ as any mentally stable, very healthy person ignoring major life changes also contemplates doing, but then I remembered that my…
How I Found a Family 8,345 Miles Away From Home
It’s midnight on my 23rd birthday. I’m standing exactly 8,345 miles away from home in a Filipino town outside Manila and ugly-crying over a chocolate…
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Eyelash Extensions and Existential Crises
Every expat ((I'm talking at least half a year, buddy!)) has a reentry moment, after they leave the place they learned to call home and…
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The Great Takeaway
As I prepared to leave the Philippines and my 15 months' service with International Justice Mission fighting against cybersex trafficking of children, I started to…
Little (Garbage) Fires Everywhere
I love email and letter correspondences because they are whimsical, genuine, and impossible. You both try to share as much as you can but you…
For Such A Time As This
Over a year ago, I left Romania shaky and weepy. My three-ish month stint serving at a survivor shelter for vulnerable women and children was…
