26Oct
Miami: The Baby, the Benches, and the Guards
Miami gave us our first extended family lesson in the difference between a travel terminal and a place where human beings can live. We arrived with baby Keilah…
26Oct
Turkey: Emre’s Door and the Food Growing Around Us
Turkey welcomed us with heat, language, sea, food, hospitality and the lovely impossibility of getting bored with one another. We flew from Miami through Russia and arrived at…
26Oct
South Korea: Great Machines, a Family Looking for a Home
South Korea astonished us with what deliberate, sustained technological development can accomplish. Here was a country that had transformed its economy and infrastructure within living memory. The speed…
26Oct
Sher, Kaleeyon, Keilah, and a Husband Far Away
There were months in Korea when the digital achievements and the family circumstances occupied opposite ends of the same day. We had courses, media, websites, plans and new…
26Oct
The Letters Looking for a Country
Sher's emails from October and November 2021 form a little atlas of international welcome. She was in Korea, pregnant, caring for Keilah and uncertain where we would be…
26Oct
Sherika, the Jamaican Embassy, and Kaleeyon’s Passport
Sherika's battle with Jamaica's embassy in Tokyo began with a simple human fact. Kaleeyon had been born in Korea and needed citizenship documentation and a passport. Our older…
26Oct
Brazil Received Us and the Family Came Back Together
Brazil was the next chapter in our love story. We arrived in São Paulo in November 2022 after prolonged separation and months of planning routes out of Korea.…
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