My blog has a new home, here on my new website! Welcome! I haven't written much in the last few years through reentry. This past...

There’s a question I’ve come to dread in my life: “Where are you from?” I’ve been asked this question many times by many people, in...

“Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown’d” –“In Memoriam A.H.H.” stanza 1, Lord Alfred Tennyson Love clasping grief as I said goodbye to...

I woke up early on Christmas morning. It wasn’t because I was excited to open gifts or see my family. I woke up early out of an intense...

The day I enjoyed the tulips, I also saw something that made my heart heavy: a “marriage market.”  I’d heard of this phenomenon in China,...

After six weeks, Lent came to an end yesterday.  It was a long and hard season for me.  I started out in the U.S., waiting for visa...

“Every lament is a love-song.” –Nick Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son, pg. 6 I’ve been crying a lot in the last few days.  Its a little...

I was talking to a friend and apologized for the grief that my decision to go overseas is causing everyone. She said, “grief is a strong...

Goodbye. It has such finality.  There’s so much longing and sadness.  And yet, it is inevitable.  We all say goodbye to people and places...