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Communicating Across Boundaries
http://communicatingacrossboundariesblog.com/
Communicating Across Boundaries is about learning to express views on culture, faith, values, beliefs, and more in order to arrive at points of understanding.From Boston to Pakistan and many points in between, this third culture kid blogs about life, faith, travel, third culture kid peculiarities, cross-cultural communication, Pakistan, the Middle East and more.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1127 )
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The Reluctant Orthodox – Volume 13: “Taught by a Star to Adore Him”
On Tuesday, while the rest of the world donned work attire and trudged off to jobs at offices, restaurants, hospitals and more, we prepared to head to our secon... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Guest Posting – A Fight for Beauty
I’m honored to send you over to DL Mayfield’s Blog today where I write about beauty in the city. DL is a gifted writer and thinker. Her pieces always leave me... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Equator People in an Arctic World
I had to do it. Cliché as it may be – I have to write about the cold. About the polar vortex. About how all you see are frozen eyebrows peeking out of massive... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Experiencing the Gray: a Daughter’s Grief
Today’s post is written by someone I deeply love — my daughter-in-law Lauren. Less than 2 years after I watched her walk down the aisle on the strong arm of... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
When They Pay the Bill
“Your bill has been covered. No need to pay”We looked in shock at our server.“What do you mean ‘covered’?” Normally not suspicious, we couldn’t believe what we... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lean Into Your Discomfort
Getting to work this morning was an obstacle course. On Friday there was snow. 18 inches of snow. On Sunday some of it melted and turned into slush. Today it’s... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
The Reluctant Orthodox – Volume 12 “By the Waters of the Maumee, We Sat Down...
In my faith journey this past year, I’ve discovered some people who have walked the road before me and can offer wisdom, challenge, and comfort when I need... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Inner Rings & Belonging
We all know what it feels like. The stomach-knotting knowledge that we weren’t invited, that we don’t belong. Our first memories of being left out usually come... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
“So You Think You Can Blog?” Advice for New Bloggers
It’s the new year and last night you had a blast of inspiration – as you were thinking about 2014, you suddenly realized you wanted to start a blog.That’s what... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Singing Songs in a Foreign Land – a Prayer for the TCK in 2014
In Psalm 137 the song-writer gives us a picture of a people displaced, in exile. They are by a river and they are weeping. They hang up their musical instrument... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2014 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Home is Where I Feed My Cat and Other 2013 Favorites
This past year, in response to a post on Home, a reader who has become an online friend said this: Home is where I feed my cat. Soon after, she sent the... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Five Things I Remembered from Bowling with My Family
On Saturday we went bowling.The bowling alley was alive with activity. Families, buddies, friends — all gathered together on this weekend after a holiday to... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
A Place at the Nativity — a Repost by Robynn
Robynn has been gone all month to India and I miss her. I miss her like I miss Pakistan and Egypt — I have ‘saudade’ for her even though I haven’t seen the woma... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Learning to Speak Coffee – A Repost
“We are the cream of the crop in China and when we come here we don’t even know how to order coffee!” A Chinese friend said this to my husband one day. She’s no... Read more
Posted on 28 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Home – A Re-blog from Something Different
I’m taking time off from blogging and today I’m sending you to the blog Something Different with writer/student Josh Wiley. I don’t know Josh but do know his... Read more
Posted on 26 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Merry Christmas 2013
A Child was born and the world was never quite the same…. Merry Christmas 2013! Thank you for the glimpses into your world and thank you for reading... Read more
Posted on 25 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Irrational Seasons
This is the irrational season, when love blooms bright and wild! Had Mary been filled with reason, there’d have been no room for the child* I’m up early. Read more
Posted on 24 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Lessons From an Ill-Fated Holiday Feast – A Guest Post
As promised earlier in the month in a call for stories, today I bring you one from a reader’s childhood in Mozambique. Writer Heidi Carlson takes us back to a... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
I Heard the Cow Bells on Christmas Day – A Guest Post
In the almost three years since I began blogging I have wanted my mom to write a post for Communicating Across Boundaries. And today is the day. Read more
Posted on 22 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION -
Glimpses of Christmas Joy
Yesterday I suddenly grew weary of ‘word clutter’. That’s when too many words and thoughts and ideas find their way from the abnormal glow of a computer screen... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2013 RELIGION, SELF EXPRESSION