June 6, 2018 Somewhere Over the Pacific *written mid-trip to America, whilst sleep deprived and without connection to the outside world, so take what I have to say with utmost caution, or don’t* To say I am excited to go home is an understatement. I’m pretty sure my countdown started at 100 days to go. I’m so stoked that I’m sitting in seat 25K, staring out the window, wide awake on a ten-hour flight from Taipei to Vancouver, knowing full well that not getting sleep is going to be so fun later when I finally make it to Chicago. Good news is that I’ll sleep really well tonight. That’s for sure.
June 3, 2018 Claim Your Story It was Groundhog Day. The skies were grey and the snow was speckled with tufts of grass peeking out over the blanket of white. At around eleven in the morning, kids piled out of the maroon double doors. Dressed in warm winter jackets and colorful snow pants, kids leapt into the snow banks with gleeful smiles on their faces. For a winter day in Wisconsin, the weather was about average. But today would not be any ordinary day.
May 27, 2018 Three Things I’ve Learned While Living Abroad As I prepare to go home to visit for the first time in nearly a year and ten months, it baffles me just how…
May 12, 2018 For Mom When I was a little girl, I was obsessed with Cinderella. And when I say obsessed, I mean absolutely infatuated with it. From the…
May 9, 2018 Unwavering Faith In 2005, my worst fear (back then) came true: my family was moving. The idea seemed ludicrous at first. We had spent as long…
December 15, 2017 2017: What I Learned Just a few days ago, I was explaining to my first graders why the sun doesn’t move, why the Earth does, and that the…
November 12, 2017 Up the Ladder The days pass by like minutes and the weeks pass by as quickly as days now. Life gets busier and as the weather changes,…
October 17, 2017 The In Between A little over a week ago, I woke up before the sun had risen. My friend and I climbed into a taxi. My hands…
October 9, 2017 Eyes Wide Open It’s double ten day here in Taiwan, also known as Independence Day. I sit on the floor of a train on my way back…
October 4, 2017 The Hardest Game in Life When I was younger, I spent many of my days in ice rinks. All four of us in my family played ice hockey and…
