Christina Dargatz

(...But humour me by consuming THIS content) I have been thinking a lot about social media lately. Not in the usual “how do we grow our account?” kind of way. Quite the opposite. I have been wondering whether I still want to grow our account. The world doesn’t need more content. There is already an unbelievable amount of it. More videos, more opinions, more inspiration, more people telling us how to live, where to travel, what to buy, how to parent and how to become the best possible version...

There’s no doubt about it: the most paralyzing thing keeping families from traveling is fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of things not going to plan, fear of losing an income, and the flat-out fear of failing in the eyes of peers and family. We are culturechalk.org. Our job isn’t just to host families at hubs; we’ve lived this reality. Over five years ago, we sold everything, left Canada, and set off for Guatemala—a country we had never been to and knew relatively little about. With five...

I am often asked, “How have your kids adjusted?” Let's start with me Around 1994, my dad took a government job managing an arts facility in Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake), a remote Inuit community of roughly 2,000 people in the Canadian Arctic. The nearest neighbouring community was Rankin Inlet, an hour flight south along Hudson Bay. Inuktitut was spoken more often than English, and life was deeply rooted in culture and tradition. It was an incredible place to spend time while growing up. I was...