Kindness has been on my mind a lot lately, especially after the recent earthquakes that devastated parts of Venezuela. Although my husband’s family is safe, the tragedy still hit close to home. In a matterContinue reading

Soccer has a unique way of bringing the world together every four years during the World Cup. This year’s tournament has been especially meaningful to me because Panama is competing for only the second timeContinue reading

Perspective is a funny thing. Over this past month, I’ve come to realize that many of the things I would consider “unfortunate events” aren’t really that big a deal compared to the serious, life-altering challengesContinue reading

Sometimes life can feel exhausting. Being a Christian, having faith, or believing in God doesn’t make you immune to it. “I flood my bed with weeping” “My soul is deep in anguish” “Why did IContinue reading

Control is one of those things that the more you try to get a grip on, the more it slips from you. Have you ever had one of those days when everything you had plannedContinue reading

Do you know someone who struggles with perfectionism? Or maybe that person is you? If you’re a Type A personality or someone with a melancholic temperament, you probably can’t remember a time when you didn’tContinue reading

What’s your relationship with productivity? Would you consider it healthy? Toxic? Non-existent? Growing up between two cultures (and two very different approaches to productivity) has at times sent me into existential spirals about what aContinue reading

If someone asked you today to write, on a single piece of paper, what really matters to you in one sentence, what would you say? I’ve been asking myself that question a lot lately. Recently,Continue reading

Where I come from, it rains almost all year long. Nine months of steady downpour in the afternoons, mostly, and the other three, it rains just enough not to let you forget about it. ThatContinue reading