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new essay on the long road home

In this week’s letter, I write about my mother’s lifelong search for home after divorce, migration, and sacrifice uprooted the stability she once knew. Moving from house to house across Calgary, dreaming through open homes and lottery mansions, she spent decades trying to rebuild something that had already been lost generations earlier in India. As I return home to Canada with my own child and broken dreams in tow, I find myself tracing the same inherited longing—the ache of living between worlds, forever searching for elsewhere, and wondering what it truly means to belong.

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New conversation on The Long Road Home

In this episode, I sit down with celebrated Canadian documentary photographer George Webber for a conversation about photography, memory, place, and the art of witnessing light. After five decades of photographing the people and landscapes of Alberta and the Canadian Prairies, George reflects on the stories that have shaped his life, the relationships he has built through his camera, and the responsibility of preserving lives and places that might otherwise be forgotten. Together, we explore how a lifetime spent witnessing one small “postage stamp” of the world can become an extraordinary archive of home.

Meet Yamuna Flaherty

WRITER, MOTHER + STORYKEEPER