Man, living in the U.S. is rough……but it’s so worth it. I’ve been back in here in the States for only about 5 months after living 3 years abroad in Central America. It has not been an easy road, transitioning from the much slower pace of Honduras to driving on the L.A. freeways with the [...]
Read moreI always knew that my family lived comfortably, most likely more comfortably than many other people, and that I was very lucky to have the family and various other support systems that I grew up having. I grew up helping sort food cans for homeless families during the holidays, walking in the “Hunger Walk” and [...]
Read moreI love glitter. Love it. I wore glitter daily as a child, and even had “lucky” glitter I only broke out when I had to take exams. Even now that I have toned down the facial glitter, I still can’t resist anything that’s covered in sparkle. Or at least I couldn’t before October 1st. On [...]
Read moreI’m about to brag about myself: I am really good at the game “Memory.” It’s that kid’s game where you try to match up all the pairs of cards that are face down on the floor by picking them up one by one and then remembering where you put them down. I’m really good. I [...]
Read moreA couple weeks ago at church, we read from Luke about a certain man of a certain stature. I had read, heard, sung the story a million times before. Zaccheus, a short, greedy tax collector, is struggling to catch just a glimpse of the man they call Christ. We imagine the intrigue and curiosity inspired [...]
Read moreDespite my long enduring love for Superman, in the past two months I’ve found that becoming a superhero is not quite so easy as running into a phone booth and speedily changing into a spandex bodysuit. However, every day my coworkers and I are asked to make that transformation (ok not into spandex bodysuits, though [...]
Read moreIf you had asked me a year ago what I thought I would be doing after graduation, I could never have imagined that I would be living in LA, managing over 30 volunteers and a food pantry that serves about 2000 clients every month. I moved out here from Florida not even knowing where I [...]
Read moreSomehow it took me living about fourteen miles from where I grew up to make friends from out of state. The university (UCSC!) I attended is populated mainly by in-state students; I think I had about two out-of-state friends. Now I live with six women and am part of a group of fifteen interns from [...]
Read moreI am ordinary. I would say I am quite ordinary but I wouldn’t want to attach such a robust modifier to a description of myself. So today, when Dom got a job and stood up in front of everyone in the computer lab to announce that he’d gained employment through “trusting the wisdom and guidance [...]
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