This week, we are spotlighting a Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor who is American by birth and global by inclination, dividing her time between Melbourne and Bali: Liz Sinclair. A freelance
travel writer who volunteers as a grant writer for a maternal health foundation for poor families in Indonesia, Liz also keeps a blog, Raising Ellyanna, that documents her unexpected foray into motherhood with her Indonesian foster daughter. Visit her website at www.lizsinclair.com.
What is home for you? Is it a particular place or person or thing?
Home is Melbourne, Australia, even though I was born and raised in America, and even though I spend most of my time in Bali these days because of my Indonesian foster daughter. Melbourne is the place I wish I’d grown up. I think it is the coolest city on the planet, with its diversity of people, cultures, and cuisine, and I never get tired of being there. As soon as Ellyanna is a teenager, I want to take her to live there and introduce her to my beloved city of migrants. Read the rest of this entry »
