A reflection on exchanging books with fellow TCK author Anna Redsand, reading Crevice: A Life Between Worlds, and what her perspective taught me about listening to stories different from my own.

Thirty-three years after leaving my childhood home in Liberia, I went back. What I found made me think about the places that become part of who we are—and why something in us still longs to return.

Leaving a country isn't always the hardest part. Sometimes the biggest challenge is learning to live as though the place that raised you no longer matters. For years, I didn’t want to talk about Africa. I never actually said those words out loud. But that's exactly how I felt. At seventeen, I arrived in America—my parents' passport country—with two suitcases and a lifetime of memories that no one around me seemed to understand. I had left behind my family, my friends, my scho

Two years. That's how long it's been since I last wrote here. If you've wondered where I've been, I've been immersed in a different story. I had the privilege of co-authoring Chosen Warrior with my Liberian sister, Rosana Schaack. What began as looking over her manuscript became far more than either of us expected. Last month, Chosen Warrior was finally published. Seeing readers connect with Rosana's story has been one of the greatest joys of this entire experience. Celebrati