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...
by kpalana | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog
Apparently the number one human affliction is the idea that we are not enough as we already are. Most people are striving to do more, be more, and achieve more without celebrating how far they’ve already come. Even the biggest achievers out there are often...
by kpalana | Mar 31, 2016 | Blog
Now that my days in Rome are numbered before our impending move to Myanmar this summer, I find myself thinking quite a bit about the spaces we inhabit and the nature of change. Back in Swansea, Massachusetts in the early 1990’s I once sat in Spanish class in a...
