Last week we found out–due to employment constraints–we have to return to the U.S. six months earlier than we planned. That’s half of what we intended. Half of our lease. Half of our anticipated adventures. Half of our time to rest and reset. No whale season. Zero of the “high season” months, which earn the …
Dedication I will forever owe debts of love, generosity, and education to my besties, KW and Gates, for challenging how I think about and act on the privileges and tangible benefits afforded me by my whiteness and the pervasive structures of white supremacy. Introduction When we first started talking about our plans to move to …
When talking with people about our plans to move to Mexico for a while, “why Mexico?” was almost always the first question asked. Sometimes it was asked with incredulity and other times more from a place of genuine curiosity. I’m going to give y’all the benefit of the doubt and treat this response as though …
I get moving panic attacks. Even though I’ve moved pretty frequently ever since I was a kid, the process causes me serious anxiety and I average one proper panic attack per move. Today, as the regularly scheduled shallow breathing settled in, I tried to analyze why this was happening. Moving sucks for everyone. I’ve never …