We’re driving home after a weekend visiting friends. After a long lunch with our friend talking about everything wrong and right with the world, my brain feels like it’s running on a hamster wheel.…
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I happened upon this half-written entry from 2015, and the complex nature of cross-cultural motherhood struck me again. This is my challenge to connect across barriers and differences- to share together as mothers in…
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If anyone ever had a support system, it was this mom, in the mountains of India. When we decided to stay and seek emotional, mental health in the midst of life and work overseas,…
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My weed garden is swaying in the breeze, with cat tails and grass as tall as my shoulders. With every day that I avoid it, the whole plot gets thicket and taller and harder…
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Today made up for yesterday in the enjoyable, lucid moments with friends where it was just normal and we could be fully present. It was full. I’m exhausted, but since I’ve been exhausted nonstop…
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It’s a long way down from our little town to, really, anywhere else. It only takes an hour to reach the city at the base of the mountain, but it is the longest, winding,…
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Yesterday was not a good day, folks. You know it’s bad when I’m sneaking to the kitchen for spoonful’s of marshmallow fluff sent recently from abroad. On my third cup of coffee (mixed with…
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It’s October, that magical time of year that makes thousands flock from the planes to our town to hike rocky paths, see the snow-capped peaks nearby, and drink steaming chai in cool fall air…
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The last time I posted was three days before our daughter’s birth over three months ago. Ha!… Our weeks stretched into months as the days whirled by in a frenzy, we adjusted to child…
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For weeks I had this recurring urge to drop everything, run up the rocky path to the nearest road, catch a taxi down that nauseating switch-back road off of this crazy mountain and never…
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One thing more amusing than adjusting to a new culture alone, has been adjusting as a family. These days, I struggle with indirect communication and relationship-over-task. The greatest challenge for my husband has been…
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Sipping coffee out of my own mug with homemade dulce de leche. The best culinary discovery I’ve made recently is that a can of sweetened condensed milk can be laid sideways in boiling water…