Tag Archives: Returning Home

America, I Love you but…

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Reannon Muth

“Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live … in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.” – Anatole Broyard … Continue reading →

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Alice in Americaland

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Reannon Muth

Alice in Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton “So how … Continue reading →

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The X(pat) Factor

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Reannon Muth

Globe Trotter by Carolyn B. Metro. I love this girl’s art! “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark Everyone has their people; their ‘peeps’, their posse. You … Continue reading →

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Roots

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Reannon Muth

Sad Tree By Melonhead83 I had a friend in Japan who was one of those curious ‘between cultures’ people who didn’t identify with any one country’s beliefs or value system. She’d grown up in Tokyo, Chicago, Bangkok, Oregon, New York … Continue reading →

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10 Again

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Reannon Muth

My life Stateside feels like a chapter out of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. I’m (temporarily!!!) staying at my parents house in Northern California and not only does it feel like my life in Japan never existed, but it … Continue reading →

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