We begin at the end. Don’t you find, things tend to begin there? A door closes, and a window opens, that sort of thing. Goodbye foretells that ultimate venture into the unknown, when the leap of faith becomes reality and you find yourself looking over the edge, both wondering how on earth you got there and exhilarated by the essence of aliveness that it brings... Thanks for being with me for episode 1! It can only get better from here. 


S01E01 - Goodbye

As an international teacher, I have a feeling of never being quite at home. Or rather, I feel at home in more than one place. Or maybe I could describe it like this: my heart has a home, and my mind has a different home, and my body has a different home, too… but wait, don’t commit me yet. Stay with me. 

I wanted to know more about this feeling. Can you call more than one place home? Can you be at home when your toothbrush is still in it’s travel case?  Is home a location, a country, a feeling, a group of people, a collection of items...? Do we all even use this word in the same way? 

S01E02 - Home

Welcome to We Are Migrants, a podcast about a simple truth - that nothing in life is permanent - and the simultaneous and contradictory search for home.

I've been thinking about this project for more than 8 years, in one way or another, as I've traveled through, lived and worked in, been frustrated by and had my life forever altered by almost 40 countries. In this cast, I want to touch on culture, drag you through misunderstandings, keep you laughing with airport antics, and ask great big questions about how the world works, who belongs where, what it means to move and what it is to live like this, as a migrant - a human being as connected and disconnected as perhaps all of us are. 

A note: For the purpose of the time you spend with me I will define myself and many others like me as a migrant worker, someone who has left home and family to venture forth to make a life - and a living - elsewhere. A dreamer and a searcher, and not necessarily an escaper or a deserter although I think sometimes this is the case. A human being as connected and disconnected as perhaps all of us are. This exists in many degrees and extremes all over the world and I'm open to refining that definition as we go.