“Check these out, Anisa!” I passed the socks to my friend. “Fourteen pairs in a pack, and only $10! They have colors on the toes and heels, but it won’t show when they’re wearing school shoes.” I had just returned from a fundraising trip in the St...

“Mom, can I do my senior year of high school in the USA?” asked my 17-year-old daughter, who’d been born, raised and homeschooled in Fiji. Three years of online high school in an isolated location (topped off by 6 months of at-home covid quarantin...

“I just want to live in Arizona,” my 8-year-old sobbed as we drove away from his cousins' house last summer, “but I don't want to leave Lebanon to do it!” 

The word ‘home’ puts quite an array of pictures in my head. Places that have welcomed me each night. What an album! But the privilege of living in Asia has also given me the joy and adventure of being invited into a much larger number of