I was surprised a by a lot of things when I moved across the ocean to Indonesia. One in particular that surprised me was the presence of a guestroom in every home. Not the kind where you would invite a guest to sleep for the night, but a separate ...

Your favorite dish gets broken.

I’ve never felt more needy than I did when our team of nearly twenty global workers evacuated a year ago from Ukraine, our adopted country for the past seventeen years. We brought little with us, and we had to depend on colleagues, friends (and so...

My daughter with special needs and I arrived at the train station too early to board the train; too late to buy lunch and eat it outside. So, we found a bench and I pulled out a banana I had packed in my purse.