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Jose Alberto Morales-Velazquez — From Puerto Rico To Nuclear Missile Silos (Part 3 of 3)
(In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we followed Jose Alberto Morales-Velazquez’s journey from growing up in Puerto Rico to enlisting in the U.S. Air Force and working near nuclear weapons.) For one minute and 15 seconds, Jose […]
Florence — Seasons Change and Places Do Too
With fall in full swing and adjusting back to life after studying abroad, I have been doing a lot of reflecting. Growing up in a small suburb in Denver, Colo., U.S.A., I experience every season, every year. I consider myself […]
Donald Pleasance, ‘Halloween’ and its Culture in the Media
One of the most popular holidays in Western and particularly American culture is Halloween. There have been many movies and television shows that portray this holiday in many different ways, including the latest iteration due out in theaters on October […]
Life In Slow Motion: Lessons From A TCK’s First Pet On Moments And Memories (Part 1 of 2)
Once in a while, a film captures my attention that I want to share with my transnational audience. Other times, life itself beckons and my attention is captured in a real-life slow motion scene. One such scene is my reflection […]
Drink It In — Traditional Argentine Yerba Mate from Mathienzo
It all started in 2011 with a silicone Mate cup. Industrial designers Mercedes Buey Fernandez, age 33 and Nicolás Tiferes, age 37, met in college and wanted to set up their own industrial design studio. They first had to show […]
Living ‘Pura Vida’ in Costa Rica — Life as an Expat (Part 1 of 3)
An Itch For Travel Brittany Alford, a senior attending Texas State University, had a desire to see more of the world. After taking a solo trip with her friends to Hawaii when she was 19 years old, she knew she […]
Addressing Privilege — Creating the Missing Piece In My Great Love Affair With My TCK Tribe
Discovering my Third Culture Kid (TCK) identity as an adult has been like a predestined romance waiting to happen before I had the language for it. Yet throughout this love affair, realized in the process of claiming a tribe, I’ve […]
How Barack Obama and His Life as a TCK Assisted His Presidency
We all know the United States’ 45th president, Barack Obama. However, a lot of people are unaware of his lifestyle as a boy. He spent his early childhood moving from country to country with his mother and never fully settled […]