I was bawling. I don’t think my partner had ever seen me cry like that in the three years we’ve been together. I wasn’t such a mess even when my step dad passed away six months earlier…
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Announcements in Korean, Chinese, English and Japanese haunt the three-quarter empty passageways that are usually full…
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When the vaccine comes and lockdowns end, the world will be different. At least, that’s what everyone says…
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Conversations are briefer. There is no physical contact. Our sense of community is bruised like a peach rolling from a table and making contact with a marble floor...
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As third culture kids, moving around frequently has accustomed us to loss…
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My surgical mask is my veil. Modesty or mortality?
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When we were politely locked into our hotel in Delhi nine months later due to the street uprisings, the desk manager profusely apologized to us…
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If sharing our personalities, sharing our music and cultures, and celebrating our differences and diversity are the most beautiful and connective forms of interaction, then what difference does it make that we are not physically together when we do this?…
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Grief is good because it creates the space for TCKs to acknowledge those losses and to process them…
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Hide your face. Hide your ethnicity. Avoid the racist taunts. Avoid the politics of being stupid…
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Why are the number of cases in Korea relatively low? We eat a lot of spicy food and sweat out all the toxic stuff from our bodies…
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I took great pleasure banning the the rest of the world…
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We will get through this with grace and kindness towards one another. We have to.
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But where is home for me? It cannot be just a single place.
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When hatred goes viral, be careful. Your words come back to bite swift. And hard enough to draw blood…
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A curfew has been enforced here. You can’t leave the house at all. We’ve been rationing the food we have…
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