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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1127 )

• Widening Our Embrace

  

  Faith, Fear, Fridays with Robynn, God, Grace, Hope, Life, Life in general, Politics, Relationships, Robynn We are constantly being overwhelmed by otherness.... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• It Takes a Long Time to Grow an Old Friend

  

  Friends - I am in Cairo, Egypt on a speaking trip. It is a gift to be here in a place that has meant so much to me through the years. Though things have changed... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Conversation and Laughter at a Funeral Home

  

  The New Comer Funeral Home is in a primarily residential area in Rochester, New York. It is a one story, unassuming building and the only indication that its... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Here’s to the Lonely Ones

  

  Here's to the lonely ones, sitting at airports on Sunday nights. Here's to the tired ones, weary of travel and goodbyes, idly eating granola bars and sipping... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Short Correspondence on the Issue of Feeling Trapped

  

  Cross-cultural, Cross-cultural Adjustment, Faith, Fridays with Robynn, God, Grace, Grief, home, Identity, Life, Life in general, Moving, Robynn, Third Culture... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Loneliness of Immigration

  

  My husband and I repatriated to this country many years ago. We came from the city of Cairo, Egypt and arrived at Dulles Airport with five children, 26... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• #Hashtags and Relationships

  

  It's difficult to write today, but it would be worse to keep silent. "I don't want to become a #hashtag. Becoming a #hashtag is a very real fear in my... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Liesl Lives On

  

  The first movie I ever saw was The Sound of Music. I was young - not more than seven years old, and our boarding school had obtained the movie from the... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Get a Life

  

  Aging, Babies, Family, Finding Your Niche, Fridays with Robynn, Health, home, Identity, Life, Life in general, love, Motherhood, Parenting, Relationships,... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Exploring Third Culture Kid Bigotry – A Repost

  

  "It's one thing to criticize a culture. It's another to see that the culture being criticized is formed partly in response to other cultures, and that those... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Approaching the Holy

  

  Our first task in approaching Another people Another culture Another religion Is to take off our shoes For the place we are approaching is holy Else we find... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• No Easy Answers – A Life Overseas

  

  Readers, my mom and dad were in the country of Pakistan and raised five of us in that context. Yesterday on A Life Overseas my mom shared a poignant story on... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• This is My Body–A Repost

  I've been thinking about the aging process and how it plays out in my body. And then I remembered this piece I wrote three years ago. I think it relates. It... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• In Memory of George

  

  George was one of those guys that I saw early morning. As I would wander up Tremont Street from the Park Street T Station he would be setting up in front of... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• “Give Your Pen to Me”

  

  Our public world is not the way to define our relationship with God. Who we are is defined when no one is looking. -Jennie Allen "Give your pen to me" he... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Everyone Has a Story

  

  It came up again this weekend: the 'where are you from?' conversation. The conversation starter that has third culture kid's squirming and sweating, eager to... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• We Had a Prayer Meeting

  On Wednesday evening we had a prayer meeting. Our church isn't big on prayer meetings. Prayer, yes. Prayer meetings, not so much. They happen very rarely. And... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• Until Next Time

  

  His eyes are so much like his mom's that I am startled. He nestles into my shoulder, knowing that I'm not his mom, but that somehow - I am safe. I stare and... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• We Can Celebrate!

  When my husband was little, his mom looked at her boys (four at the time) and said: "Pick your cake and stick with it!" So each of them picked a favorite cake... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION

• “This is Real”

  

  The movie A Beautiful Mind i s based on the story of a brilliant mathematician, John Nash. Nash is as arrogant as he is brilliant, but that changes as he goes... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2016 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION