The Baby and the Bathwater, Uneasy Change
“No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker What if that person is you? Seems like I only talk about trials and tribulations lately. The saga with my birth-father is never ending. My dad’s family is as loony as ever – especially with my cousin’s [...]
Obama, Mixedchicks and Community Action
I often forget that I am an immigrant. While I have lived in the U.S. for a little more than a decade and had considerable contact with U.S. (military) culture growing up, I still feel quite foreign. I have a hard time viewing myself as American. However, when I am in Germany, I feel more [...]
