Category: Education

Beirut

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Beirut feels old. You can’t help but notice it. Its break from modernity gives it serious charm. The buildings haven’t had much love in the past 50 years. They are weathered and old fashioned, neglected and sad. There are millions of electrical wires going from rooftop to rooftop and the power goes out regularly. The […]

Read More

The Power of Food

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Food and cooking are a massive part of my life. It has been for many years. I love to learn about food, cook, and eat. Living an expat life brings a certain depth to my passions and for the last few years I have been living out some of my Anthony Bourdain fantasies, RIP my […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More

So It Begins…

.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Read More