As we stood as a family by the window sill, with our children on chairs peeping through the metal grilles,…
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Tiny Tam
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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True Treasures
After a near five-year hiatus from cycling since becoming pregnant, it was my four-year old first born who asked me…
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Broken, Yet Loved
When I lost my cool and nearly cut my finger because the kids were whining and asking what I was…
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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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