Find Your True Self and Don’t Be Afraid to Be It: A Podcast
I am so excited to share that I’ve been interviewed for another Podcast! (If you missed my first one on Eastern Orthodoxy, go here.) I found Tayo Rockson through Twitter. He is a third culture kid,...
View ArticleChameleon
Today I am thrilled to be guest posting at Failing Joyfully, my friend Bree Morel’s lovely blog. Bree’s writing is lush and authentic, and her blog is always a visual treat. She is running a wonderful...
View ArticleWhere I Found God: Face Down in the Mud
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Where I Found God SeriesI can’t remember exactly how I found Suzanne from Tattooed Missionary, but when I stumbled upon her blog, I found a gem. I mean tattoos...
View ArticleTo the Man Selling the Homeless Newspaper on the Street Corner:
I see you. But it makes me uncomfortable to see you. I never know where to look when I pull up, especially when I’m the first car in line at the light, and your presence is three feet from my window....
View ArticleRemnant
I called it a gazebo, but it was really more of a covered porch enclosed on two sides by fancy wooden lattice railing painted off-white. The floor wasn’t the grainy wood slabs or the rough concrete of...
View ArticleWhen Back Church is the Place You Belong
When I was in seventh grade, I started a new school. The previous year had been my first year as a missionary kid in Thailand, and I’d attended a small school that was basically more like a homeschool...
View ArticleI Don’t Have a Five Year Plan
All the EXPERTS ON EVERYTHING say you should set short and long term goals for yourself. You should have plans for your life, and a map for making those plans a reality. I don’t think these suggestions...
View ArticleWhen You’re More Comfortable in an Airport Than in Your Home Country
I took my first solo international trip just a few weeks after turning seventeen. I’d had traveling companions on the trip from Bangkok to Nashville: my grandmother and two of her friends who’d come to...
View Article7 Reasons Why Internet Lists are Totally Annoying
1. Some internet lists, like this one, are a random odd number. For Type A personalities, this is extremely frustrating. Give me a list of 10, not 7 or 9 or 13, please! 2. Lists smack of...
View ArticlePoem a Day for 5 Days – Day Two
I’ve been tagged by my friend, poet Brianna Pike, to post a poem of mine (published, early draft, loved or hated) each day for five days and each day, I’m to tag another poet to join the challenge....
View ArticleOne Word 365: Mid-Year Word Change?
For a few years I’ve been choosing one word or mantra for the year instead of making New Years Resolutions. This past January the word I chose was enough. I wanted to begin to truly believe in my own...
View ArticleWhy This Election Felt Like a Personal Blow
Because I have dedicated my life to “the others” of America. The immigrants and refugees. The Muslims and the Coptic Christians. The students who arrive to school on Day 1 with no English and are...
View ArticleDangerous Territory: A Poem for My Student (& a Giveaway!)
Letter to My Student Emilia The teacher from the middle school told me for six months you’d worked a second shift job after lying about your age, then you slept every day in class. She made you quit...
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