by kpalana | May 26, 2017 | Blog
Some thoughts over a cup of courtesy tea after living almost a year in Myanmar. It has been nearly a year now since I first moved to Yangon, Myanmar with my family. Initially I wondered if I would hate, like, or even love my new home. It’s one of the few...
by kpalana | May 15, 2017 | Blog
This is an adapted excerpt from my new book with Jacqueline Seidel, Free At Last: Live, Love & Work Abroad. Find Jobs and Build Your Career Anywhere. —– “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” ―...
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 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...
