A couple of weeks ago, I went home to Alaska where I grew up. There are so many things I love about being back under my parents’ roof. The smell of clean laundry as soon as you walk in the door. Taco nights, when my brother and his wife come over and everyone teases me for putting...
Happy New Year! In my job as a recruiter, these three words invoke fear and anxiousness. I find it difficult to celebrate the blessing that was the year behind me, as I am confronted with the unknown before me. My scorecard resets to zero. Doubt settles in. Will I be successful? Will I be...
Like many people, my intention statement for the year could be summed up with the word “present”. For me, this has a dual meaning. I want to focus on being more fully present to the moment. Sometimes, I feel like I’m living life in my rear view mirror. I’ll think...
Oops...I Did It Again! Did you know Britney Spears’ first album came out 20 years ago? The media has been filled with lots of nostalgic posts, and it got me thinking... Copyright: jasmeet / Flickr I was a teacher for nineteen years. Before that, I went to school to get a college...
When our twin boys were born about nine months ago, we were excited! Not in our wildest dreams did we think our home would be filled with five kids. As I wrote previously, we had just bought our first house, assuming our family size would be five. We loved our cute little 1940s...
My five-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son recently told me they didn’t believe in Santa anymore. They were suspicious of the fact that the Santa they visited every year for photos looked very different from the Asian Santa who crashed their Christmas party last year. Both...
"Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”- John 4:37-38, NIV Sometimes life as a Christian can be disappointing, especially...
Recently, I was encouraged to give meditation a try. If you had asked me to do this a few months ago, I would have been skeptical. A few years ago, I probably would have laughed outright. I’ve always been a little unsettled by silence. As a child, I lived in a windy area, and my...
Over the last few years, I’ve been through quite a journey. In prior Estuaries posts I’ve referenced how I’d burned out big time and gone through the hardest season in my adulthood thus far. But I never divulged the details of what happened. Kind of evasive...
While I was having lunch with a friend who is also single, we began to talk about the difficulty of remaining in Silicon Valley because of rising rents, gas prices, health insurance, car repair, and those unexpected financial issues that arise every now and then. I mentioned an article I...