That Rough Piece

What if one day you realize that after years of running away, you don’t fit anywhere anymore? What if you’ve become a very odd piece of a puzzle? You’ve been cut out several times to fit different puzzles and still ended up too big, too small, too dull, too bright, or just plain wrong for puzzles […]

Thinking Out Loud

My favorite lines: And, darling, I will be loving you ’til we’re 70 And, baby, my heart could still fall as hard at 23 So honey now Take me into your loving arms Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars Place your head on my beating heart I’m thinking out loud That maybe […]

Stranger

I call you world. I call you star. I call you night. I call you all other names except for yours. I call you brave. I call you mighty. I call you FAITHFUL. I always call you you. Sometimes, you’re funny. Sometimes, you’re grumpy. But all the time, you’re you. I call you world. I […]

Things You Do When You Leave Home to Study in Another Country #1

Download Messaging apps. A LOT of it. ALL OF IT.   …as if your family and friends are not on Facebook and are constantly on it. It’s scary to be, suddenly, the “foreigner”. Hey, that’s how you call people back home whom you think don’t actually belong. And now you’re IT. You’re the one who […]

A Time for Everything

3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2     a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3     a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4     a time […]