Certainly, as Americans, we enjoy many freedoms other countries do not. For example, in communist China, Facebook, “AKA the Birthplace of All Drama,” is blocked. I know this from firsthand experience using social media in China; thank God I wasn’t arrested! Read More
Spending two weeks in a foreign country means there’s no shortage of stories to tell. While my last column focused more on the cultural differences that I had to navigate through, today I want to talk about some of the things I loved. English. When I travel out of the country, I never expect Read More
On November 9, after two weeks in Kenya, my husband and I landed safely at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. It was a long journey and I was ecstatic to back on sovereign Texas soil. When traveling abroad, one has to put aside all Western thinking; otherwise you will end up miserable for the Read More
Growing up who did not secretly wish, even briefly to be a super hero? Personally, I always wanted to be Wonder Woman. Her ability to spin around and change clothes, transforming from ordinary Diana Prince to Princess Diana AKA Wonder Woman mesmerized me. Never mind that the television character played by Lynda Carter in the Read More
Growing up in church, the concept of foreign missions wasn’t unfamiliar to me, but neither was it personal. Missionary work was something other people did. In 2003 my husband took his first missions trip to Macedonia, I stayed home and took care of the children. In 2005 he made his first trip to Kenya, returning Read More
Technology is an amazing thing. I’m writing this column in October, from the privacy of my home, but by time it is published, I will have been in Kenya for approximately six days and will still have about that many more to go. No doubt I will have much to write about when I return, Read More
It is hard for me to believe I have been publishing my own blog since April 2009. I really discovered my love for writing during a college English course. After that semester ended, my desire to write did not, so my husband, James, created a blog where I could have both an avenue and an Read More
