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Flag Day: Part 2

Photo by Vladislav Klapin on Unsplash This is part two in a three-part series. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, you should definitely start there. For those of you who are caught up . . . on to part 2! ———————– Once preliminary axing...

Flag Day: Part 1

Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash Hello all -Today’s post is a bit different than my normal updates. It’s something that I wrote in 2022/2023 when taking part in a months-long writing program. I originally planned to use the piece in a book, but then decided publishing wasn’t my jam (too...

Six Months In

My view when walking from the Consulate back to our townhouse! Today marks six months in Almaty! In some ways I feel quite settled (favorite coffee shops identified, house set up to my liking, public transport mastered), but on the flip side, there’s a whole lotta things I thought I’d...

Aquaponic Magic

Hello Readers – I had intended to write again shortly after the earthquake but COVID had other plans. Nick got the positive diagnosis first and I followed two days after. We had the good fortune of sending Nia away to a friend’s house for five nights and thought she’d been spared, but...