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...
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Word Between Worlds
Sharing personal stories of faith, life, childbirth, and cross-cultural living in the USA.
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- Jan 6
- 7 min
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...
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- Dec 29, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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- Dec 26, 2022
- 6 min
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...
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- Dec 18, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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- Dec 11, 2022
- 4 min
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....
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- Dec 7, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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