The Enigma of Arrival
I’ve landed, but where am I? In German, to arrive, “ankommen,” is understood to be a longer process, one that could take days or weeks.
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Sharing stories from our lives.
TCK Diaries: My High School Reunion
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t terrified going into the reunion: I was jobless, husbandless, childless, petless, and I hadn’t even found a cure for cancer!
“Lilybet, your Dad’s dead.”
I was stunned. I dropped my pens, stood up and burst out into uncontrollable sobbing. Dad was my role model, my best friend, my only true confidante. He was the reason I became a teacher.
Two Sides of My History
A simple classroom question suddenly became a personal question of patriotism.
TCK Diaries: Heading Home
Now it’s quarter-life crisis #2. Having just been laid-off, I began re-prioritizing my life. This was an opportunity of a lifetime. With my 100 hour work weeks, I used to dream about what I would do if I could just take one day off.
TCK Diaries: Getting Laid-Off
Getting laid-off is not ideal, but I quickly realized that it answered my long time desire for (temporary) “early retirement” and an escape from a job that I was miserable at. The minute I entered my apartment, I tossed all my papers aside and jumped on my computer, immediately logging onto all the travel sites I could find.
On Roads and Rails
I’d pretty much spent my entire adulthood in the United States without needing a car. Then I moved to Guam.
Exploring the foreign United States
In truth, the United States was one of the most foreign countries I had ever visited.
Detective Work
Nancy Drew never solved a mystery by googling it, let’s keep the TCK identity mysterious.
A TCK is Still Human
A syndrome of the global nomad lifestyle, “international introversion” is a gradual, chilling indifference to your peers. Put more simply, you lose the depth in your connection to friends because of the never-ending transitions.
Denizen 