a piece of my mind - She Laughs at the Days

Everyday Courage

At the fruit stand across the highway from my turn off I see an old man sweeping every day, sweeping, until the […]

When you live overseas with children a conversation you might often have is about raising third culture kids, or TCKs. TCK is […]

It’s all around us this time of year, if we listen. Subversive, revolutionary ideas about how the world ought to be fill […]

We play a little thought game sometimes, my husband and I. It’s simple really. We take what we know about the people […]

Last night I had the privilege of meeting a young man who is Rohingya. His father is Muslim, his grandfather is Muslim, […]

2000 When Aaron asked me to marry him, he did it three times. (I wrote about the first time here.) He says […]

She carefully hands me the coins she has swept up from the corners of my bedroom, this change I didn’t even notice […]

The other night Bam Bam woke up in a mood. You know the kind. He’s not hungry, he’s not thirsty, he doesn’t […]

Thursday morning I drove to the airport in L.A. where Aaron and the Boy boarded their flight to Thailand. They are spending […]

Dear Daughters, As you continue to grow, not only in size, but in beauty and brains and all that good stuff, I […]