Mar 30, 2024 | Culture, Featured
You planted in me a love for the ocean, but a life so far from its shores. Maybe the love originates from a thread deeper than you, one that reaches back to our ancestors whose home on the islands was all they knew. How did we get so far away from them? Or them from...
Dec 11, 2023 | Culture, Faith, Featured
This summer an unexpected change occurred. My son, who a few years earlier would barely brush his teeth or comb his hair, suddenly seemed to discover himself in the mirror. Almost overnight he decided that how he looked mattered. He started to try different...
Sep 26, 2023 | Culture, Featured
The threads connecting nature and culture are sewn deeply into my life experience. My childhood summer vacations to the Philippines often coincided with the rainy season. Instead of considering it a hardship, we’d treasure the rain that refreshed us and gave us relief...
May 26, 2023 | Culture, Featured
Every night I read my son Cristian a set of bedtime stories. Even at one year old, he loves books and can pick his favorites. One book that always makes the stack is Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn & Rosalind Beardshaw. It is a short and sweet book about a...
Apr 13, 2023 | Culture, Faith, Featured
Twenty-five years ago, we took a train from Madrid to Nice on France’s Côte d’Azur. We, my friend Sarah and I, left our study abroad classmates behind for a holiday trip around Europe. The train was delayed in Marseille, and our basic French didn’t quite help us...
