Roundtrip ticket home traces one high school Chemistry teacher’s journey from
Brooklyn, New York to St. Croix, USVI; Wallingford Connecticut; Palo Alto, California;
Morogoro, Tanzania and Johannesburg, South Africa; and Maseru, Lesotho each time
with a stint back home in Brooklyn, New York to reconnect with the familiarity that
is friends and family, all the while seeing the inevitable changing landscape of a
place that her family calls home.
Tales of the adventure of living in a children’s home, growing up in inner-city
Brooklyn, in the eighties, attending prep school as an A Better Chance scholar,
serving as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in East Africa, teaching in the NYC Public
schools and being an African-American expatriate living in Africa are all weaved into
this honest portrayal of a nomadic life. Roundtrip ticket home shares the moments
of growth and transformation that comes about when you live life expecting that
things can only get better from here.
Roundtrip ticket home is a testament to the adaptability of the human spirit. It offers
a unique perspective of what is means to live your life without a permanent address
or a clear sense of what “home” means.
Brooklyn, New York to St. Croix, USVI; Wallingford Connecticut; Palo Alto, California;
Morogoro, Tanzania and Johannesburg, South Africa; and Maseru, Lesotho each time
with a stint back home in Brooklyn, New York to reconnect with the familiarity that
is friends and family, all the while seeing the inevitable changing landscape of a
place that her family calls home.
Tales of the adventure of living in a children’s home, growing up in inner-city
Brooklyn, in the eighties, attending prep school as an A Better Chance scholar,
serving as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in East Africa, teaching in the NYC Public
schools and being an African-American expatriate living in Africa are all weaved into
this honest portrayal of a nomadic life. Roundtrip ticket home shares the moments
of growth and transformation that comes about when you live life expecting that
things can only get better from here.
Roundtrip ticket home is a testament to the adaptability of the human spirit. It offers
a unique perspective of what is means to live your life without a permanent address
or a clear sense of what “home” means.