Better Late Than Never — Stories

My first relationship started in Costa Rica. Running around the city, beach trips, endless sunny days. It was perfect…

In Love, Adulthood, Better Late Than Never, Bouncing Back, Moving, Relationships, Resilience, WomanBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)24 March 2021TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

Dear 2008 You

It is 2008, and our conversation is yet to ride the waves of the internet. Like a bird that seeks to beat a fast-moving train, it is getting harder to pick up where we left off. No matter how furiously we scurry and scribble through each page, our letters tarry to the finish line, lagging three months behind, responding to a stadium that has long emptied.

Better Late Than Never, ResilienceBy Farah Beaini (Living in the land of the Kulin nation)20 December 2017Better Late Than Never, Resilience, TCK TOWN, Tck, tck, TCK, third culture kid, culture, conversation, home, home country, travel, country Comment

Assemble Yourself

What is there to fear? There is no place for fear when this world doesn’t fear for you.

An Uncertain Delta

I met J in the flesh on a very cold January day in New York City. We were at the big Barnes & Noble in Times Square. I was only seventeen. I gave her my copy of Haruki Murakami’s South of the Border, West of the Sun as a first-meeting gift...

Better Late Than Never, FriendshipsBy Claire Rementilla (From New Jersey. Living in California)5 April 2017TCK TOWN, TCK, Better Late Than Never, new york, Murakami, new jersey, sisters, alien, United States, Demarest Hall, friendship, loss, goodbye Comments

Time Trilogy

When you were on Guam in the 1970s, you were at the edge, staring down into the abyss. We were a 5-hour flight from the West Coast to Hawaii and then another 8 hours till solid ground. Packages took 3 to 4 weeks by shipping if they caught the right boat...

Better Late Than NeverBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)31 July 2016TCK, Trees, Church, 1970, 80s, 2016, Christmas, Military, Better Late Than Never, tree, typhoon, Guam, South-East Asia, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, December Comment

The Digestible

This guy really is just passing the time, I deduce from his gestures, intonation, and eye contact. He has bigger fish to fry, women to (attempt to, at the least) seduce, beers to guzzle, joints to roll, greasy kebabs to inhale at ungodly hours, and throbbing Sunday morning headaches to nurse. He would rather talk about prostates and pension funds than hear what I’ve got to say...

Better Late Than Never, Where Are You From?By Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)24 July 2016TCK, Australia, brother, interaction, Better Late Than Never, Mate, relationship, Perth, society, Pakistan, vulnerability, conversation, TCK TOWN, BroComment

Heartattack And Vine

In Dubai we grew up with a 'working class' - bar and restaurant staff, cab drivers, retail assistants and ushers were nameless, friendly people whose stories often stopped after we had given our orders or our requests were seen to...

Better Late Than Never, AsiaBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)21 July 2016TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture adult, third culture kidComment

Late To The Party

I grew up in Pakistan, where one’s life’s trajectory is comfortably pre-ordained: one must get a tertiary education at a reputable institution, during or following which one must get married and “settle down”, and then, of course, oblige one’s in-laws by producing a strategically interspersed brood of obedient children...

Better Late Than Never, Adulthood, Asia, Relationships, Traditions & CustomsBy Anam Javed (From Pakistan. Living in Melbourne)17 July 2016tck, TCK TOWN, Better Late Than Never, Pakistan, parents, marriage, children, single, Pakistani, aunties, society, desi Comments