Inside an Outsider’s Day Outside

It may be possible to be both an outsider and an insider at the same time. It may be…but more likely to be one or the other, or at least mostly one or the other. Having now lived here almost four months, I am expecting to feel the transition to insider sometime soon. [...]

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Going Home

Both before and after we moved to North Carolina, people asked me if I thought we would live here permanently. I admit that part of me wonders if we’ll stay for five years or 50. And for a very short time after we moved, I was experiencing an identity crisis. Which state [...]

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Are there social benefits to travel?

In moving to North Carolina, I sought not only warmer weather, but a stronger sense of community. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed friendship in Michigan. With good friends. But I have been longing to live in a neighborhood where the neighbors know each other and have cook-outs where they simply walk [...]

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