Holy Competition
When I signed up to write about Compete I wasn’t thinking about the Super Bowl in America. I swear! Really, pinky promise. You might wonder why I’m starting off protesting so strongly. It’s because my team (the amazing Denver Broncos) is in the Super Bowl—which will be Sunday at 6:00 p.m. EST in the U.S.— […]
Eden Is My Catnip
Our cat Patches was one cool cat. Until . . . catnip entered the picture. If he caught even the faintest hint, he was absurd. Gone was his cool swag as he made the pathetic mewing sounds and gladly followed anyone with catnip to the nearest brown bag where he could roll in it like a […]
What You Need When You Have Been Uprooted
I feel like a repotted young tree, in new soil, new environmental conditions, and pruned back in order to survive the transition. Familiar places under which I received shade, close friends, 2nd mile church, routines and rituals of Cambodian life, are no more. I have been uprooted. Probably the most important thing I can do […]
Where We Have Gone Sideways
Once upon a time a perfect woman had everything every hungry heart strives to pull from this Pintrest laden landscape of unmet expectations and Facebook-impossible standards. She was in a perfect place, in a perfect relationship, in a perfect body. Everything was just as it should have been. A perfect woman. And yet perfection did […]
This Side of Eden
I fell in love with Jesus in the mountains of the Adirondacks in upstate New York. I perfected my J-stroke as the sun collected behind Spec Mountain, waiting to nudge light through thick stands of hemlock and birch. The paddle cut into clear water as my canoe coasted to the other side of camp, where […]