Blog | Words between Worlds

To the City of Brotherly Love (A reflection on 3 years...)

Three years ago, we were sitting inside a mostly empty rental house in Texas, awaiting our return to South Africa with suitcases packed....

Living Poetry

Recently a few friends asked me why I haven’t been writing. This made me feel great, because I was convinced that the only people reading...

Fun with Syrians: Teach a Man to Fish (Economics 101)

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese proverb I arrived at the...

Taco Learns a Lesson

Scientific research says that dogs are good for mental health. They improve your levels of dopamine and serotonin and are clinically...

Fun with Syrians: Sharing a Meal (part one)

*** Fun with Syrians is a series to be written by both me and Chris to share our experiences among refugees. We hope it will make you...

Meditations on the Incarnation: Thoughts of a Doula

***Warning: graphic birth content*** This will be the second year in a row that I have a client due on Christmas. In our recent prenatal...

If Dante Had a Root Canal

If Dante had been more creative in his satirical classic, The Divine Comedy, he would have invented a 10th circle of hell, where people...

Why We Got a Dog.

My son, Jonah, just has so much love to give. He’s incredibly nurturing but he has no recipients to receive his abundance of affection....

An Algerian Occasion (And other thoughts on womanhood).

Algerian women love to dress up. All women do, I think. But North African cultures take this to the next level. Of course, I didn’t know...

The Banya

Working cross-culturally here in the USA, I'm always giving invitations and looking for ways to create community. So, when one of my...