by kpalana | Feb 8, 2019 | Blog
This blog post was originally written for the website ExpatClic.com Out There – Doodles From Abroad: How It Came to Be How should I introduce myself if you are just meeting me for the first time? How about with a doodle from my digital sketchbook and new...
by kpalana | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog
The students thought it was a graduation. However the staff and faculty knew the truth. It was really a funeral. The graduation address by the university’s president also functioned as a eulogy. He had arranged for moving trucks to arrive at 10:45am the...
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...
