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From ‘Merikkkah to Sabai Sabai: One Year Later…
The Year That Was… (Context & Milestones) It’s been a year… and what a year it was. I left behind a 25-year teaching career in government education, retired with full benefits. Goal accomplished, just like I planned since I... Read More
Listening: Connection Before Correction
When we speak, we are not asking to be advised, fixed, or given solutions. We are asking to be seen. To be understood. To be heard. And yet, people so often hear someone’s pain or confusion as a cry... Read More
Following the Voice, Learning to Let Go
This morning I sit in a small Istanbul coffee shop along the Bosphorus. The city hums and pulses around me — cars, motorbikes, trams, people rushing off to work, ferries gliding across the water, tourists drifting toward the Old... Read More
The Dark Roads of Trust and Its Ghosts
I travel down dark streets through Thailand at night. There are no police patrols, no one to call if something goes wrong. Vehicles speed closely past me that I can feel the wind shift across my skin. Am I... Read More
In the Wake of “Yes”: Living with Ambivalence & Paradox
A Natural Part of Change I’m sitting in the middle of monsoon season, again. It’s raining every day, carving rivers into the streets. The threat of flooding returns, like my memory of being displaced and evacuating my home this... Read More
Nothing to Prove, Everything to Give
For most of my life, I believed love, closeness and affection had to be earned. That I needed to be successful and do something impressive to be accepted and loved. If I worked hard enough, performed well enough, maybe... Read More
