isolation — Stories

Identity crises in a Pandemic: An Emotional Introspection

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…

Ping Pong Across the Indian Ocean

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

Of Bread And Salt

Vegetables and fruits defy all 150m2 of the backyard and nudge across the neighbourly fence. Life can not be contained…

Emotional Djinn

My surgical mask is my veil. Modesty or mortality?

COVID-19By Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)5 July 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, COVID-19, masks, isolation, wfh, distance, social distancingComment

Tin Can Martial Law

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…

How to Meet TCKs in Your New Home

It is so helpful to get out there with an open mind and some level of trust in the people you are going to meet…

GuidesBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)13 June 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, birthday edition, COVID-19, isolation, belonging, confidence, relationships, atck, travel, friendship, friendsComment

Self-love Wisdom for the COVID-19 Season

Grief is good because it creates the space for TCKs to acknowledge those losses and to process them…

COVID-19By Megan Norton (From the United States, South Africa, South Korea, Germany, Japan, Israel, Austria, Greece, Hungary, and Poland. Living in Michigan)10 June 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, birthday edition, COVID-19, masks, isolation, wfh, distance, social distancing, belonging, confidence, relationships, grief, atck, travelComment

Shall We Dance…Apart?

Hide your face. Hide your ethnicity. Avoid the racist taunts. Avoid the politics of being stupid…

COVID-19By Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)3 June 2020TCK, TCK TOWN, birthday edition, COVID-19, masks, isolation, wfh, distance, social distancingComment

Driss and Philippe—a Friendship Beyond Their Borders

Latin American films (‘Amores Perros’ starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal), Israeli films (‘Waltz with Bashir’ by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman), and Asian films (‘Yi Yi’ a film set in Taiwan following the lives of the Jian family from their alternating perspectives) — I revelled in them…