The Crossing is a weekly letter from Randy LeGrant — three minutes, every Friday.
For more than fifty years, I’ve had a front-row seat to people changing their lives and their location. New careers, new countries, new coasts, new chapters. Some crossings went beautifully. Some went sideways. I spent those decades building programs that sent people into the world — and watching, up close, what actually happens when someone leaps, hesitates, or comes home changed.
I never wrote any of it down. Now I am.
Every Friday you’ll get three things, and only three:
One Story — a real one, drawn from those fifty years. One person, one moment. Sometimes it’s a teacher, sometimes a career-changer at sixty, sometimes me in a place I probably shouldn’t have been.
One Step — something practical for anyone contemplating a change. A visa rule, a real cost, a timing trap, a way to test the water before you dive.
One Question — one worth noodling on. I don’t answer it. That part’s yours.
No hype. No course to sell you. Just what I’ve learned from watching people cross the distance between the life they have and the one they keep thinking about.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, subscribe below. It’s free, and your first letter lands on Friday.
— Randy
Randy LeGrant has spent 50+ years in international education and cultural exchange, with roles across AIFS, AFS-USA, The Experiment in International Living, and as founder of The Cultural Exchange Project. He writes The Crossing from wherever he happens to be.
