What I Appreciate About Life In The US After Living Overseas

5 things I loved this year

January 2023-Milwaukee, Wisconsin

As you probably know by now, I spent the last seven years living in Jordan (with a strange, brief stint back in the states in the early COVID days. More on that weird time later).

After I moved back to Boston last April, I had a newfound appreciation for some things that I had taken no notice of before moving to Amman. I had absolutely taken them for granted, and why not? They were always there.

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