International Flying with Toddlers in 2020: What I Learned
Here's what I learned, it's very simple really: 1. You can't make everything right for your children. However, you can prepare them,...
May 3, 2021
Waiting to Fly
It’s the tension between living in monotony and living in adventure that really gets to me. As a mother of two little children, routine...
May 4, 2020
Our Rota de Las Flores Adventure
I’m a big fan of understated beauty. Sure, loud and glossy can be fun, but quiet and natural beauty holds the most magic for me,...
Feb 10, 2019
Raleigh, North Carolina
I grew up watching a lot of Andy Griffith, and when they weren’t talking about Mayberry, they were talking about Raleigh. My friend,...
Oct 28, 2017
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah. Even its name evokes feelings of warmth, ease, and a southern drawl. One of my dearest friends from college lived near...
Oct 23, 2017
Reflection: A Year Since Guam
A year, or has it been five? I remember the giant boxes and our dearest of dears who stood with us in line at the airport. There were no...
Nov 16, 2016
Congaree National Park, South Carolina
Congaree National Park–a gorgeous swampland of towering trees, fireflies, and rather crazy camping experiences, apparently. There is so...
May 30, 2016
Moving to the Mainland: Advent and the Blahs
There’s a lot going on right now–wars and rumors of wars, not to mention the churning in my gut and the straining of my nerves. Our...
Dec 3, 2015
A Letter to Guam upon Leaving
Dear Guam, I am not the white girl who came and left. Please stop saying so; it is simply not true. Well, I am “white,” whatever that...
Oct 30, 2015
Batu Caves, Malaysia
Like a worn out mule I have carried this shame, this stand-on-the-sides-of-my-feet-and-keep-silent shame. It is the progeny of a...
Sep 30, 2015
Hitchhiking in Malaysia
Stranded on the top of a mountain in an unfamiliar country wearing a pretty pink dress is a cute idea for pictures on Insta, but it...
Sep 14, 2015
Fields of Salt Water and Oceans of Corn
An ocean of prairie grass billows and the wagon sways like a ship, heavy with hope. Those brave pioneers crossed miles and miles to claim...
Aug 2, 2015
The Midwest: The Old World of My Heart
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” ~My Ántonia Lately I have been reading My Ántonia by Willa...
Nov 6, 2014
