10 Small Community Ideas for Big Summer Impact
Ah, summer. A time for vacationing, sand between toes, sitting by the pool, and watching as an ever-increasing percentage of your paycheck goes to paying…
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4 Questions to Help You Find Your Travel Soulmate
It’s one-o’clock in the morning and I’m trudging up a steep cobblestone hill from our late-night meal. I’m cursing my falling-apart flip-flops, our early morning…
6 Ways to Build Your Community in a New Place
The summer after college, I was living the new-grad dream. I had secured a job at a nonprofit in Dallas and was spending my summer…
The Underrated Value of Helpfulness (And How to Cultivate It)
A couple of months ago, when discussing my husband’s upcoming graduation with my mom, she expressed an openness to attending the event (we moved away…
5 Questions to Ask Instead of ‘What Do You Do?’
Dating apps are not widely known for promoting social graces. So I shouldn’t have been surprised by my awkward interactions with a potential suitor. I…
How I Learned How to Say No (Minus the Guilt!)
For many years, I prided myself on being the queen of “yes.” If a project needed some extra hours at night or over the weekend,…
How Quitting the Peace Corps Taught Me to Serve My Community
I knew I wanted to join the Peace Corps ever since I was a kid. I loved to travel, I studied Spanish in school from…
How to Be a Good Houseguest
An optimist by nature, there are a handful of things that I consistently overestimate. I put twice as many items on my to-do list as…
How I Learned to Love My Parents Better After Moving Back Home
I begrudgingly moved back in with my parents in 2019 after more than 10 years of living by myself, working in Makati City, the Philippines’…
How Attending an LGBTQ+ Friendly Congregation Empowered Me
When I was a child, my favorite song to belt out in the children’s choir at my Southern Baptist Church was “This Little Light of…