Every few months, Nexpat will chronicle another returning expat's journey. This first installation of interviews Mindy Warguez was kind enough to provide me with her return journey. She provides a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and generously selfless review of her challenges and what she discovered upon her return. I hope it provides inspiration to you all, as it did to me. I met Mindy in the Philippines a couple of years ago. Mindy was stationed there with her husband, w

​​​​​​KINDNESS 2017 seems to be the year of kindness. Parade magazine offered it as a resolution for society. One of my personal favorite quotes from a favorite author, Neil Gaiman, speaks directly to kindness and seems particularly appropriate for this edition: ​​​​​​​"I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and th