Another Example of Leadership: Lindsay Cobb
We found out late last night that Lindsay Cobb, an active leader with the Southern Baptist Church and locally at Uptown Baptist Church, died suddenly this week. I met Lindsay several years ago when the...
View ArticleMaking New Friends
I’m not “new” to the neighborhood, but there have been many days where I have felt deeply the absence of good friends nearby. I spent way too much time in crisis-mode (work transitions and conflict,...
View ArticleWe Have Become the Ahjummas
My girlfriend and I stood there first cutting the traditional birthday cake – the flour, sugar and egg variety – and then cutting another traditional birthday cake – the sweet rice and sugar variety,...
View ArticleDid She Cross a Line?
If you haven’t read The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (pepy3, where are you on the waitlist?) I humbly suggest you put your name on the library waiting list, borrow a copy from one of your friends or buy...
View Article20 Things I Learned Through 20 Years of Marriage
Trust me. The math actually works out. Peter and I have been married for 20 years. Some lessons were easier than others. Some are still in process. Some require a lifetime. I’m grateful beyond words,...
View ArticleFound! 11 Female Conference Speakers at Q and My Voice
I was nervous. I’d be lying if I told you otherwise. It’s one thing to meet some of your favorite authors (I got pictures with and autographs of Lauren Winner, Shauna Niequist, and Rachel Held Evans....
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Grief & Gratitude
Sometimes the expression of an emotion has to catch up to the spiritual disruption. Grief is a very strange, powerful, exhausting emotion, and it didn’t really hit me until I opened my mouth and said...
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A Quick Primer on #codeswitching
Dear Readers, Have you heard about the crazy that went down on the Napa Valley Wine Train over the weekend? So the wine train is a real thing, and my husband and I were on it about 21 years ago for our...
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Marching While Asian American
I feel sick to my stomach. Walls. Immigrants. Refugees. Native lands. Silencing federal agencies. If any of My Dear Readers think they are going to be OK because, you know, God is in control, let me...
View ArticleVitamin L Diaries: I’m Depressed. Are you?
I’m working with my happy light just off to my right. I will let it do it’s thing – bombarding my brain via my eyes with fake sunlight minus the bad UV rays. It’s one of several tricks up the sleeves...
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