When Online Friendships Reveal Your Canon
So my last post was about some of the wonderful people that I’ve met online and interacted with. People whom I’ve never met in person (other than one of them – yay Susan!) but with whom I have had many...
View ArticleFind 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 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 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 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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