I woke up late and was in a hurry getting Jonah ready for school. He was grumpy because he had to go to school, but Evie didn’t.  He was...

------- “C’est vrai, Roshelle?” Lilly asked me, showing me a news story on her phone about hurricane Milton, set to make landfall later...

If you know my husband and I, then you know we are opposites. And never is this more apparent than in our styles of parenting.  I accuse...

"But for my own part, if a book is well-written, I always find it too short." - Austin My dearest husband,  I shall now endeavor to...

Being in ministry requires an uncomfortable level of self-promotion. I have to speak in front of churches and other groups and explain...

{Memoirs of a Tired Mom} I need to wash my face. I keep forgetting I’m wearing makeup - purple lipstick and yellow eyeshadow - and I...

Ana and Eugene Lutskiy are opposites. Eugene has the charismatic and gregarious personality that you might expect from a social media...

A lesson on cross-cultural communication Last year, my friend, Gwen, and I took a small group of North African friends camping. It was...

I complain about Philly. I whine about crime, drugs, noise, traffic, and jab at the wayward manners of northerners. Philadelphians often...

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

"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...

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

*** 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...

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

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....

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...

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