It’s eery quiet in our South Delhi neighborhood. A few motorcycles out, rushing for a necessity or to the hospital—the only places open. I’m perched on our bedroom balcony next to the washing machine…
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Confession # 1: I’m up way too late… working. This means that I have a terrible lack of boundaries and I should be in bed. Or at least making the kids’ lunches for tomorrow.…
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Sometimes living abroad feels like a rodeo. More specifically, it feels like riding in a ring on a wild bronco. Some days I’m sitting nice and pretty, wowing onlookers with my seat and confidant…
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It’s 6am in our city of 25 million. I sit in the rocker that I used to rock baby girl to sleep in from 8-weeks-old in our former mountain home. Now she’s full-on-3 (going…
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It’s a dreary day and the monsoon rains drown the streets with rivers of water, while cyclists wearing trash bags for raincoats and city buses drudge on through. I planned to visit a plant…
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My eldest graduated from preschool this evening in a brief ceremony celebrating he and his classmates. I assume that the graduation ceremony into kindergarten is more for parents than children. The kids skip blithely…
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Of all the things I’ve attempted in life, motherhood has been the hardest. The two small human beings I call son and daughter have left me weeping on my knees on the bathroom floor…
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Have you ever had something that you said you would never do? And then one day you wake up and you’re doing it and it’s not your favorite thing ever, but it’s OK? Well,…
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My husband came home on Monday after 10 days! After 10 long days of flu, triple quarantine, an abscess that turned into a staff infection (and changed the shape of my nose), two trips…
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The sun is not up yet and both kids have been up waaay too long, running around with inordinately loud stomping and asking for breakfast. I keep telling them, “No matter how early you…
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I followed peace home to our home sweet home after three long weeks of travel. Life on the road with two preschoolers is like controlled chaos, and as carefully as we plan and as…
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A friend interviewed me today for her website, and asked me about my last three years (spent living in India). I told her about God’s personal promise to give me “a garden, in this…