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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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