You’re Moving Where? All Roads Lead to Malawi

by | May 27, 2019 | Blog

I’ve Come Undone   For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”...

How to Use Color Therapy to Easily Overcome Your Next Cold

by | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog

The ancient Egyptians as well as the Greeks, Chinese, and Indians all used color therapy to help heal ailments. What would it look like if we experimented by using some of the same color healing techniques today? Obviously heed your medical doctor’s advice when...

Greetings From 1999. Last Days in Rome before Our Myanmar Move

by | 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...

Out of the Loop: In Search of a Life More Ordinary

by | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog

This post is an excerpt from my new book, Free At Last: Live, Love, and Work Abroad as a 21st century Global Citizen — When I was eight years old and in the third grade, a new girl arrived in our musty wooden classroom at the four-room Bark Street School (built...

Thank You Italy, For Giving Me Mama’s Boys

by | May 9, 2015 | Blog

You really have not heard the word “mama” until you’ve heard it come out of an Italian’s mouth. Better still, from the mouths of your own Italian children. “MA-MAA!” Each syllable is drawn out, flush full of adoration which can only be pronounced and...