When doors close on you, it’s no fun. We’d visited kindergarten after kindergarten, to no avail. When we finally shortlisted…
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Tiny Tam
Our Lives as Living Epistles.
As we stood as a family by the window sill, with our children on chairs peeping through the metal grilles,…
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Leaving for Africa.
“You’re getting deployed to where in Africa?” “Eswatini.”“What?” “NO MAMA! NO GO!” Of course, my children’s response was a vehement…
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Hard Conversations
In my years of work, I have been publicly humiliated, yelled at, dismissed. But the hardest conversation I’ve ever had…
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Scarring well.
It was a thud that made one’s insides go dead at once. “Blood! Blood!” Cliff yelled. Blood dripped…
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On Forgiveness.
So close to Christmas. And it felt like I had committed a crime. With one violent contraction, triggered by a…
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