Tag: BLOG
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sanctuary
The fog is thick here in the hug of the Carpathian mountains. Heavy. Like the snow that charms an inky night with its shushing lullaby to the arctic wind. On this day, we shepherd an array of children through the mud caked paths that have been loosely coined streets. Slick and chocolatey, our feet fail…
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third-culture thoughts
ANOTHER WORLD It wrapped its arms around my head and pulled as the revolving door spit me into its dim realm. As the days and years passed, the not unpleasant but pungently earthy smell would become a reminder that I had left the sphere of one world and entered an inner sanctum; a sub-world, if…
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turkish toilets
I have heard it recently related that the wife of an important person was hesitant to visit our part of Europe where the toilets may be Turkishly challenging and life is a little raw. She preferred the westernly ordered, pristine shopping boulevards of our European neighborhood. I have to smile at her loss as I…
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the black butchering
‘A basement turned butchery was not the ideal location for an act of treason’, the thought swung through his mind in a downward torque like the handle of an axle before its blade meets flesh. After the first loud squeals had been silenced, the blackened room assumed the morbid rhythm of dismemberment. hack. SPLAT. hack.…
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shades of gray
‘Csilla, my hair is orange.’ It’s not what you expect to say when the towel comes off for the initial unveiling. Nor does one anticipate your 7 year old son answering in the affirmative when you question whether his friend just referred to you as the ‘lady with blue hair’. If memory serves correctly, my friend…
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coming home?
When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she landed in another world. All of us live that Wonderland moment as we come home to another culture. For almost half of my life, I have been making that once upon a time journey on both sides of the Atlantic.
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economics
It boils down to a question of economics. Take away the sexiness of the world’s hottest new topic. Strip it down to the core engine that drives the machine and your final destination has a price tag. The trafficking of humans for sex, for work, for organs, in the end is just a profitable financial…
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take and remember
The city beckons to us as the lights create an incandescent dance on the Chain Bridge. Tonight we will spend a warm evening enveloped into the home of Eugenius and Jurga who have become special friends over the last 18 months. There is a magic that can happen when people from different cultures find a…
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classroom 101
A few months ago, I promised the English teacher at school that I would take all of her classes while she went on her honeymoon. I love to teach and I get to have my girls and their friends as students. Last week was a highlight for me even though it meant I had to…
teanna sunberg 