In this second part of her interview Tomoko talks about going back to Japan some day and she opens up, a little, on her personal […] Read More
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My friend Tomoko is cheerful and approachable but she is also in her own way a private person, so I was delighted when she readily […] Read More
One of my goals when I graduated from my French business school in the 1990s was to start working abroad right away, as opposed to […] Read More
One thing I did not expect when moving to Cleveland from New York – it’s fair to say I was pretty ignorant about the Midwest […] Read More
Grand-Père and Grand-Mère are staying with us this month, as per our now well-established family tradition. As summer lingers in Cleveland we are taking on […] Read More
My husband’s family is from Tamil Nadu, the eastern state at India’s southern tip, but he grew up in Kerala, the western state at India’s […] Read More
The interviews I have conducted for this blog have caught Minette‘s attention. After listening to them quietly she recently suggested I should interview her too. […] Read More
Last time my friend Agnieszka and I talked about how she emigrated from Poland as a child and grew up multicultural in Cleveland. Now she […] Read More
Agnieszka is one of my best friends in Cleveland. We met five years ago as we were taking our then baby daughters to story time […] Read More
Are you familiar with the Indian head shake? I was not when I was first introduced to my husband’s family. In a nutshell, the Indian […] Read More