Embracing my Need for Mentorship
I would like to say that I begged my lucky stars to keep this birthday from coming, but the truth is that I’m more than ready to be 30. There’s nothing special about the big 3-0 I suppose. And some of you are going to laugh your way through this post. Perhaps I’ll laugh, too, […]
Honoring My Parents When I Live on the Other Side of the World
As I looked around the room of fellow expats at our International fellowship’s women’s retreat this spring, I had a sudden rather shocking realization: I was probably the oldest woman in the room! This was one of those defining moments. A “first time this has EVER happened to me” experience. Déjà vu, just like the […]
The Cost of Yes
I remember watching them when I was small. Watching them tease one another at 30, 40, 50. Watching them point to the hair at their scalp and laugh together that the color was fading from it. Watching my grandmother pull at her skin in the mirror, marveling at how it had crushed into itself like […]
Another Kind of Cost
It’s been an emotional day today. A mixture of excitement for the future while at the same time loss and grief for what that future implies. Twenty-five years ago, we were on the same path. Twenty-five years ago, we said good-bye to family and friends and took our little two month old baby boy to [...]