island — Stories

My Analogue Life

This ocean is not mine, I was born in another. I moved, learned, lived, cried and loved somewhere else…

AdulthoodBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)5 June 2019TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, Third Culture Adult, young, Islander, island, summer, spring, Ocean, moving, moving countries, belong, belongingComment

Time and Its Cultural Pendulum

Time is a very culture-centric topic that my father taught me well across the countries we lived in. On Guam, people were usually an hour late on an island that was 20 minutes wide to drive…

Where Are You From?By Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)23 June 2018TCK TOWN, Tck, TCK, time, Spain, Guam, punctuality, late, island, military, watch, Germany, early, promptness, flexibilityComment

Love On The Wires

You and I were practically joined at the hip. For every joke I heard, you laughed at the same point I did. Our humor was like honey poured into a biscuit, where each half reopened to show a mirror shape. You and I fit, we stuck together, we clicked...