Choosing to return to your family’s homeland offers as many enlightening moments as it does challenging ones. Itoro Bassey shares her experience returning to Nigeria to offer you insight. I’ve…
Travel Helped Me Heal After Surviving 9/11. Now the Wanderful Sisterhood Is My Tribe.
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day was #BeBoldForChange. I think it’s an amazing thing to instigate change, but let’s be honest: most people can’t be bothered. It’s much…
White at Home and Brown Abroad: Navigating Race and Identity as a Latin@ Immigrant and Traveler
I am white. But I am also a person of color. My race and ethnicity seem to be defined more by who I am speaking to when I travel than by me or my heritage.
ABQ Haiku
New Mexico skies, Contemplative blue, yellow Expansive adobe earth I think I’ve said it before, but my heart seems to fall for the unique traits I encounter in each place…
Deja-Vu
I’ve now been living in Canada for 16 months and yet still get asked at least once a day, ‘Is that an Aussie accent?’ NO, no its not. Nor is…
Zumba
Parkville is a story of constant adaptation and change. From what I know, the Connecticut neighborhood was a pretty white place for some time. My mother’s mother, a North Dakota…