Author: Natalia Chambers

A Scar Is Born

.Reading time 5 minutes.

Differences The one and only time that we’ve had to take our son to get stitched up was a few weeks after we first moved to Malaysia.  This was about 5 years ago. My experience with Asian playgrounds ever since has been that it isn’t uncommon for sharp things to poke out of a play […]

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Catch of the Day

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Compound Cats I have a little trap, neuter, release operation going on our housing compound. Living the way we do (a high wall surrounding an entire neighborhood with barbed wire) results in a high feline population for likely a number of reasons. Many of these animals are expat pets who are left behind when their […]

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Cat Compassion

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  Selfie A sweet ginger cat showed up on our school campus the other day.  Actually, the back door was open to my classroom and she walked right in. I couldn’t resist taking a selfie with her as I tend to do this whenever we travel.  She doesn’t seem to belong to anybody but is […]

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So It Begins…

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As a mindfulness educator, I’m trying to reach as many students as I can by offering my service wherever there is an “open door”. I already teach mindfulness to my 4th grade students, and I have been teaching this to my own homeroom class for 5 years, but now I’m trying to take some risks […]

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