I can’t say I hate traveling anymore, but I don’t love it. When my boss called me into her office one fateful afternoon, she said I needed to go with them to help host our conference in Cote d’Ivoire. I sighed, but also agreed. This one would be bigger than…
It’s rare these days that I make it out of my house for a movie. It’s even more rare that I have the luck to watch something in the cinema with someone. On Friday night I found myself wonderfully blessed, not only with a husband who was more than happy…
I don’t consider myself a world traveler, but I was recently made aware that while most of my family and friends have never gone beyond our country’s borders even once, I’ve left it 5 times. When I don’t travel for awhile, I take so much for granted. Refrigeration/cold milk/cold anything….
It’s 4:30 in the morning and rain is pouring down. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to figure out it was raining. I got up, pushed a series of red and green buttons on the wall to turn off the AC, and yet it still sounded like…
If you like your life the way it is, never ever EVER pray for peace. I had everything figured out. I would marry Joel and we would work together to be less miserable as time went on. I would rent two rooms from my Aunt and finally be able to…
The opening scene for Far From Home doesn’t feature Spidey fighting a bad guy. We don’t see shenanigans with Peter and Ned returning. Instead, we are greeted with a tribute to Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, and a humorous montage of what happened when half of the population was…
Although they’re just for fun, personality quizzes help us find our habits—good and bad. When I’m forced to wonder which mythical creature I’d rather befriend I learn what values are most important to me. (It would be so cool to befriend a dragon, but a unicorn is less expensive to…
In February, two months before Joel and I broke up, I prayed an unusual prayer. “God, please let whatever is hidden between us be made known. Let our secrets come out of the dark and into the light.” That was it, short and simple. Later that day, I received a…
Step 1. Grieve We are told “it’s okay to cry” since elementary school, but crying still makes me feel stupid and ugly so I ignore the impulse until it goes away. However, like an earthquake that causes a tsunami, the end of my 8-year-investment with Joel made too many waves…
Going through my break-up with Joel has been a battle against the ocean—some days the waves are small and easy to climb over, others feel like I’m being crushed and pulled under by the riptide. I must have searched for something to help me cope because, without consciously telling it,…
