"The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began…" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
I walk up to the counter at the grocery store and decide to pay with cash since it's a small order. The cashier rings up my items, and it seems like any other routine transaction. But then I attempt to count out exact change. The quarters look like 10 NT coins from Taiwan, and the pennies are … Continue reading Counting Change
Charles and I just put together and shared with our local Taichung community a pretty comprehensive list of all the furniture and big items we are selling since we're leaving Taiwan. Because it's an overseas move, it's cost-prohibitive to take most of our household items with us. That means selling couches and beds, bookshelves, dishes, … Continue reading Moving Sale…It’s Getting Real, Y’all
"Do you keep a blog anymore?" my youngest sister asked me yesterday. Yikes. Has it been that long since I've written? Yes, I still keep a blog, but in the midst of a very busy and somewhat tumultuous season of life, the blog has gotten a little dusty. So now it's time to blow off … Continue reading Goodbyes and Hellos
Recently, I've been having a recurring dream that I am going back to Asbury University as a graduate student. In the dreams, I am always rooming with one of two friends from my real Asbury days--incidentally both are named Sarah--in the regular undergrad dorms even though we are working on our master's degrees. The weirdest aspect … Continue reading Restless Dreams
I've read a lot of commentary online about how we manufacture perfection in our Instagram photos and portray only the best in our status updates on Facebook. There's a lot of talk about how it's easy to be fake online, how it's natural to be unnatural when there's a computer staring you in the face … Continue reading {Segue} My Mess
