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My Golden Ticket Hypothesis
“¡Guerito!” señoras exclaim and young people say under their breath to friends. White boy. Everybody stares. On the avenue outside my son’s Montessori school, an elegant woman tousles his yellow-white hair in passing, as if she’s stroking silk in a … Continue reading
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Tagged children, culture shock, family, identity, immersion, language, Latin America, living abroad, marriage, Mexico, parenting, travel
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Things Carried: The Art of Packing Home
Ordinarily, I am paralyzed by the act–no, the necessity of packing. Sometimes, I don’t even get to the act. Someone else does it for me, or I just throw a few random things in a backpack so airport security will have something to rifle through, and call it quits.
As a traveler, this has been a handicap. But not this time. Continue reading
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Tagged family, home, living abroad, marriage, Mexico, parenting, travel
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