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Ping Pong Across the Indian Ocean

Many people didn’t know what Pakistan was. Right after 9/11, they did…

The Pink Lion from Tanzania

I wanted to claim Tanzania as my home, but how could I? I was not accepted by others as a part of their country…

Loving & Hating Nashville

I took everything I could from Nashville and in return, Nashville took everything out of me. I haven’t figured out how to make this city my home and I don’t know how to stay…

The Consistency of Change

Do you ever feel like you have an alter ego for each city you go back to? I know Nashville changed me, I learned lessons here I’ve never learned anywhere else and I hope that those stay with me when I move…

ChangeBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)22 July 2020friendship, millennials, TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kid, Gen Z, diversity, culture, communication, moving, Nashville, USA, relationships, city, cities, homeComment

A House of Lives

The world outside, though foreign, is also mine…

Larry Gatlin and the Longing for Home

The song Piel Canela conjures images of my sister in traditional Costa Rican dress, dancing while it plays…

The ArtsBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)4 April 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, familiy, music, the arts, peace, home, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, dancing, homesickComment

Not Another KFC Christmas

I was mortified to learn that a Tokyo Christmas meant cozying up over a bucket of KFC…

The Familiar Leap

Forty-eight countries have hosted me. Those four dozen have left their mark

MovingBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)5 February 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, countries, moving countries, community, traveling, travel, travels, japan, home, connect, connection, unk, unComment

I Just Want a Matchstick

We were in Costa Rica, two months in, on a year-long adventure of travel, volunteering, and growth…

Why I Date Guys Who Smoke

They think it’s because of their badass demeanor, their cocky swagger, their muscle cars, and their tough reputations...

To a Land of Simpler Life and Spanish

My earliest memories are of traveling back and forth on ‘Mr. Continental’ and ‘Mr. American’ from Honduras to Illinois, to see Grandma and Grandpa at Christmas time and feed the cows…

LongestNameFavoriteCity

Once you get off the main thoroughfares that cut through the city, you are immediately in labyrinths of small streets, side streets and alleys. You never know what you’re going to find as you walk down those byways. A new restaurant, a tailor shop, an antique shop, a high-end jewellery store side by side with a massage parlor or a five-star hotel with a small flower stall next to it….

Cities, BoundariesBy Anthony Arcis (From America, London, Istanbul, Bangkok & Toronto (mainly). Living in The Philippines)23 November 2019city, cities, TCK, TCK TOWN, TCK training, Tck, tck, ATCK, third culture kid, home, homes, Bangkok, ThailandComment

I Am Not a Tourist Here

I knew that people could look at us and know we were not from there, yet I tried desperately to fit in in this place that I called home...

Self Worth, SchoolBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)28 October 2019hometown, language, third language, self-worth, local, home, third culture kid, perspectives, school, tourists, TCK TOWN, Tck, TCK, PeruComment

How to Settle Down Before Settling Down

Settling in takes time. Sometimes you need to take conscious steps before you really put down your roots. Ava, our Editor-In-Chief, shares few of her tricks to help you pre-settle after your next move.

GuidesBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)16 October 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, Guide, mental health, moving, moving countries, energy, home, homesickness, happy, happiness, peace, love, self-worth, self love, selfComment

Being a Danish Inuit

I was very inspired by the Gitano nomad lifestyle. I asked my father if it was possible to live like that today. Of course, he didn't want his daughter to wander off and live like a gypsy...

When Nowhere Is Foreign

We pass through countries, like revolving doors, denizen aliens of the world…

3 Simple Tips on Keeping Grounded

Sez knows a thing or two about staying grounded as a TCK and a TCA parent. Born in South Africa to a multicultural family, having lived in Sri Lanka, and now an entrepreneur and mother with two beautiful children, you’ll want to read her guidelines!

GuidesBy Sez Kristiansen (From South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, U.K., & Sri Lanka. Living in Copenhagen) 10 July 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, health, healthy, self, self-worth, self love, move forward, move, moving, home, identity, purpose Comment

When Solo Travel Isn’t So Solitary

Jay and I stayed up till almost 3am that night realizing we had much more in common than we thought, shedding tears and spilling our life secrets…

Flyway, My Friend

A collaborative project between 20 artists across nine countries came close to that gossamer spirit that has guided me through my travels. That project was The Flyway Print Exchange, coordinated by the Melbourne-based printmaker and artist Kate Gorringe-Smith…

Past the Point of Resilience

I never thought that this change I loved so much would betray me. When my dad started talking, tears ran down my face as I soaked in his words and tried to make sense of what he was saying. We were leaving Peru in three days. No one in Peru knew we were leaving...

ResilienceBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)27 April 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, Tck, Peru, Minnesota, Tennessee, suitcase, change, goodbye, moving, culture shock, home Comments