I stumbled into The Queen Vic in Aberdeen, Scotland after 16 hours of travel. My taxi driver from the airport had said, looking at my AirBnB address, “I think you live close to the local here in Rosemount. It’s one of the best locals in Aberdeen, so you are a lucky lass.”
Read MoreI can’t feel my right foot and my legs aren’t even in the lotus position. Cici, my husband’s former grad student, and Shifu, as we call the Buddhist master, have folded their lower bodies into tight packets — knees down, soles and palms turned heavenward. Shifu’s posture mirrors the row of buddhas and bodhisattvas, radiating stillness on the shelf behind her close-cropped head.
Read MoreFeatures Editor Yi Shun Lai provides an inside look at disaster relief over her decade-plus of volunteering for ShelterBox.
Read MorePam Logan, author of Compassion Mandala and founder of the Kham Aid Foundation, an NGO bringing resources to Tibet, talks about everything from starting an NGO to international relationships to the opportunities and challenges facing today’s non-profit organizations.
Read MoreKennesha Bell lived her entire life in Philadelphia until at the age of 39, she packed up her family and moved to Doha, Qatar to teach first grade, satisfying a longtime yearning for travel and international experience. Four years later, she has no plans to leave.
Read MoreOne easy trick to see and remember more of your travels. That trip was the first on which I’d told myself that I’d try and do a watercolor drawing each day. And so, when I looked through my photos, I had an added touchpoint: I could remember trying to draw this waterfall; that platter of kleina pastry; those sorry approximations of the woolly willow and the mountain avens.
Read MoreWhen Sara and her husband David were both laid off within a week of each other, they picked up and moved from New York to Spain where they opened an intimate bar in Altea’s picturesque old town, high above the Mediterranean.
Read MoreSometimes I feel like Miss Havisham in a flight attendant uniform. I may inhabit the 43-year-old body of a Tucson mom—complete with unfashionable bob and part-time work-from-home business—but I’m still haunted by the 24-year-old London-based flygirl I used to be.
Read MoreIt was exhilarating to do something just for me, so far off-script for the obedient daughter and people pleaser I had always been. New job, new country, new boyfriend—I managed to make it all happen in a whirlwind three months, so fast that I had no time to sort through the wreckage of my previous life.
Read MoreI see you, walking to bore holes, or wells. You carry aid buckets full of soap and water purifier. You are re-building your homes, or hanging up mosquito nets around your children.
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