Third Culture Kid: Pleased to Meet You
When I was ten years old my family picked up and moved to Kazakhstan, and I became a third culture kid. In 1996, my…
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Snapshots of a Third Culture Kid
As a Third Culture Kid (TCK), I often wrestle with who I was and who I am today. The following are snapshots from the…
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Fathers & Prison – How Does it Work Once Dad Returns Home?
“I had a struggle yesterday,” Rick begins. “I got laid off from work.” Rick is a husband and a father. He considers himself…
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Motherhood Behind Bars
I am going to tell you the heartache, joys and pain of mothering from the inside of prison walls. This is probably one of…
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Prison Fellowship – Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
At my desk at Prison Fellowship in northern Virginia, there’s an index card tacked to the wall of my cubicle. On it I’ve written…
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Film Review: Loving
I could feel the wet Virginia humidity as I watched Loving. As a native Virginian, I slipped easily into the story of these two…
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Third Culture Kid: Post-Election Anxiety
I don’t know what to write. I want to write about the recent American presidential election. As an author who writes predominantly about her…
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Third Culture Kid: Falling for A TCK
Since I wrote last week’s Third Culture Kid post on relationships, I decided I wanted to hear from a first culture kid about what…
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Third Culture Kid: 5 Things For Dating a TCK
Relationships are hard when you are a third culture kid (TCK). Because we’ve grown up with a transient lifestyle, commitments can be difficult for…
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Third Culture Kid: My Take on Gilmore Girls
The hit TV show Gilmore Girls dropped into my life when I was a 15-year-old Third Culture Kid (TCK) living in Kazakhstan. Gilmore Girls…
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Third Culture Kid: Are You Ready For Some Football?
I come from a family of artists. All of us have a talent for some art form, be it painting, design, music, drama or…
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Now on Netflix: The White Helmets
As the 40 minute Netflix documentary The White Helmets begins, we hear a plane fly overhead and then the sound of a bomb falling….
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