For months, my family and I had been exploring a significant possibility for our future. We researched, visited places and compared alternatives until an idea started feeling like a plan. Then, circumstances changed. Something we had deliberately prepared for became uncertain. Disappointment came first. Then frustration and anger. Was the plan delayed, changing or disappearing? I simply didn't know. After writing about moving towards our goals in Da Nang and arriving somewher

Mountains have never really been my happy place. Give me an endless coastline, the sound of waves, or the horizon, and I instantly feel at home. Until Sapa. Walking across a glass bridge above the clouds and standing on Vietnam's highest peak, I experienced something I had never quite felt before. My heart felt more open. My mind felt quieter. And suddenly, the problems I had been carrying no longer seemed as heavy. The problems hadn't changed. My reference frame had. Problem