Choosing Openness
I sat quietly on the couch as the conversation between the other young adults swirled around me. She did everything right. I didn’t want to pray or read my Bible...
Category: Life Overseas
When Ordinary is Extraordinary
Vacuums, Sponges and Mops, Oh My. We're all women here. More than likely, we are well-acquainted with these tools (of torture). In fact, while in...
Mental Illness Shows No Partiality
When I was fourteen, I faked it at the shrink's office so I could get a bipolar diagnosis like my friend Katie. Judge me if you must, but I had...
How a Train Bathroom Taught Me about My Identity
In one horrible moment, as the Chinese train rattled and rocked from side to side, with one false move, my friend dropped her passport right down into the train’s squatty...
5 Principles, 1 Practice, and a Calendar
Enough. If you pluck one word from this post, let it be enough. Enough fruitless striving, or striving an inordinate amount for a small yield. Let...
Reflections and Reorientation
Before we close the chapter of our lives called "2013," we want to take some time to reflect, to reorientate ourselves before we turn the page...
An Untold Story
I have one sharp knife in my kitchen. One. That’s it. I use it for everything. Sure, I could buy a knife set here,...
What are you yearning for this season? {Book Club}
Here's the schedule for this month's book: Ann Voskamp's The Greatest Gift December 3rd: have read December 1-3 December 10th: have read December 4-10...
Eight ounces of normalcy
After a year of “lasts” – last Thanksgiving in America, last Christmas, last birthday, last this, last that – the “firsts” began. It started off slowly. First...
