Every day, we are constantly being reminded of how precious the world truly is. We are prompted to be more conservative with our use of resources, to reduce what we send to the landfill and to recycle. To do our part, we make an effort…
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Life’s Great Travel Adventures with Gordon and Althea Abraham Scholars seeing the world. Dr. & Mrs. Gordon and Althea Abraham are seasoned SabbaticalHomes.com members and world travelers. In 2010, they decided to volunteer at St John’s University of Tanzania in Dodoma. Teaching students in this…
Manhattan Beach, CA (February 15, 2011) – SabbaticalHomes.com is enjoying its 11th year of operation and is making more connections than ever before in the academic community. With over 56 countries represented and nearly 7,000 listings, members can find homes away from home nearly anywhere…
Living happily every after with the help of SabbaticalHomes.com Perhaps you believe in love at first sight, but what about love at first rental? SabbaticalHomes.com has learned that an owner and a tenant who met via SabbaticalHomes.com have become engaged and plan to marry in…
Connections that result in long-lasting friendships People meeting by chance who happen to be from the same city is interesting but not all that uncommon. Two people meeting who spent time in the same tribal area along the Niger River in West Africa is certainly…
Barbara Kolber attended a festival in Cartagena Columbia two years ago and heard author Monica Ali speak about her immigration experience. Ali’s book, Brick Lane, was made into a movie in her Bangladeshi community in London. Kolber found her to be a modest and eloquent…
We get wonderful stories from our members about unique connections. One of these comes from a member from Illinois, Kathleen Adams. She and her husband were toying with the idea of moving to a new house in their neighborhood when they got a SabbaticalHome.com inquiry…
The Guardian UK author Martha Holmes-Watkins explores academic sabbatical opportunities in her article titled Time Out. She details considerations one should take into account when asking for sabbatical leave and emphasizes relaying the importance of how your sabbatical will benefit the school. Read the entire…
Professor Lee Tobin McClain teaches English and is the director of the master’s program in writing popular fiction at Seton Hill University. She wrote a thoughtful four-part series about her sabbatical for The Chronicle of Higher Education. While first embarking on her sabbatical journey, she…
At age two, my son has now completed 11 home exchanges. My six-month old daughter has two exchanges under her diminutive belt. Some of these swaps were as short as a weekend. All were wonderful ways to introduce the children to new places and lifestyles….