On the Journey

On the Journey

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice–though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what...
The Tension of the In-Between

The Tension of the In-Between

2019 is a little rocky so far. I am stuck in this in-between, like a kid right before they go to college, like those days between winter and spring when our world can’t decide which season it’s in. In less than a week I will travel back to my other home,...

The Privilege of Being

I had been in Mae Sot a whole minute before the Father whispered into my ear, “Mary and Martha.”  It was a slow morning, the first slow morning I had since leaving the States almost a week earlier. Kristy was on a short trip to Bangkok, and I was home...