by kpalana | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog
I am just starting my morning here in Myanmar and as an American living overseas I remain curious and interested regarding the US presidential election. I haven’t read about last night’s debate (I will do that right after I publish this blog post) but I...
by kpalana | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
Disoriented in the Orient But Getting Better… A little over a month ago I moved from Rome, Italy where I’d been living and working as a university professor for a decade, to a new country on a different continent with my husband, two small sons, and our...
by kpalana | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
Chances are, if you are one of the billions of people with no access to the Internet you are not reading this article right now. I’m actually writing it offline (in my trusty Word program) with the hopes that one day, hopefully even today, my spotty Internet...
by kpalana | Jul 20, 2016 | Blog
Stories from our second day living in Myanmar It’s 12:41 AM in my new home in Yangon. On only my second night in the country I’m unable to sleep so I decide to write about the previous day instead, my computer glowing in the dark in my bed under the protection of a...
by kpalana | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog
First please do excuse the unpolished nature of this and perhaps the next few blog posts. In true Italian fashion, our internet company Fastweb (aka: Cob Web) cut off our internet service three days too early. This is the same company that took roughly six weeks to...
by kpalana | Jul 3, 2016 | Blog
As an expat visiting family and friends in the USA these past three weeks, I am struck by how very kind and civil Americans are to each other, especially to people they’ve never met. Despite all the squabbling over politics, the all too frequent gun...
