Holding the Good and the Hard
I bought clothes at a local second hand shop a few months back—a Paw Patrol shirt for my five year-old, a cute little white onesie with a pink and...
Category: Asia
No Strings Attached
To the 7-year old Sarah who declared to the Lord, “I’ll be anything you want me to be but PLEASE don’t make me be a cross-cultural worker”,...
Discovering a Love For Cooking + Pumpkin Soup {The Grove: Recipe Box}
When I first moved to China over 6 years ago, I didn’t know how to cook anything. My greatest feat was boiling eggs to make an egg salad sandwich....
You’re Speaking My Taste Buds
Food is a language of its own. I moved six hundred miles away from my hometown to go to college. For every reasonably-long holiday, I’d...
Open the Gates
I grew to love living behind a fence, barbed wire and broken glass at the top and bars on the windows keeping fear at bay. I craved safety and...
Thai Food Love: Coconut Lime Chicken
Where's your favorite place to eat? Does a certain city represent good food? Grandma's house? Your own kitchen? For me, it's on a larger scale: Thailand. Fortunately, we get to...
Velvet Ashes Live- Chiang Mai, Thailand
The only thing better than connecting with all of you here in our online space would be to do it together in person! Are you in or near Chiang...
