Labels can also be freeing. That’s what I’ve experienced over the last couple of months as I’ve attempted to regularly unpack community, one of my core values. It has now become the exploration of life as a third culture kid.
Author: wordhabit
never satisfied
Today has been quite the mix of activities. It began as usual, waking up with the “It can’t possibly be time to get up!” feeling. It included breakfast with my family and then an unplanned (for me) trip to Atlanta to drop off my older sister. She’d considered taking Groome but my dad insisted on…
…be the same
I just remembered a poem I wrote in French while attending an immersion program the summer of 1999. Like a song, I repeated three lines that spoke to how the summer had changed me and to how different I was from classmates. I wrote it during the final week of six. And then I remembered…
When you have to say no.
Today, I made a difficult decision. Well, I actually made the decision last night but had to communicate it today. That’s always the tougher part, telling someone, “No, that’s not going to work and here’s why.” It’s tough because so often “no” is seen as a rejection of the individual versus a rejection of the…
For International Women’s Day
There are moments in my story–pivotal ones, shaping ones–that have clarified what being a woman is all about and what it’s not. Tonight, it’s about being a mother, intuitively placing the white trash bin in front of my toddler’s face as she sits, freshly showered and night-time-clothed on the bathroom floor. Her stomach has been…
Clarity
Want to be an amazing Administration? Okay. But you can’t also be an amazing mother. Want to get a PhD? Okay. But you can’t also have copious amounts of time in your garden.
Birthday musings
This birthday has been the best, thanks to my Justin. Here’s the deal… (as Ella would say, which she got from Justin) One of the things I’m horrible at doing is maximizing down time. It wasn’t until marriage, 7.5 years ago, that I realized the importance of mapping out vacation plans (not just location but…