How many times have you heard ‘being lonely is not the same as being alone?’ ‘You can be alone in a crowd.’ Examples of being the newbie, the oldie, the single, the only family, the translator or the mono-lingual one on the team come to mind. But ...

A young man crouches in the mouth of a cave, fleeing for his life from someone who had previously taken him in and entrusted him with great responsibilities. He had left everyone he had known and loved and was forced to move from town to town for ...

“We’re moving where?”

Initially, I was thrilled with the idea of moving to the village of reindeer herders living at the end of the road on the Kamchatka peninsula. The journey to the village was an adventure in itself, requiring a 10-hour drive over a winding, bumpy g...