Looking up through deep water to the sun shining through the water surface.

The ocean of emotions

Have you ever asked a guy how he feels and gotten a bland logical response? Yeah, me too! Marriage has made me shockingly aware of the deeply rooted differences between men and women. Accessing my emotions is as easy as breathing. The difficulty of prying an emotional response from my husband got me thinking of whether there was a good analogy for…

The pains of living away from family

My family left yesterday to fly back to their home country and I was devastated. I had a glimpse of what grieving was like and it was terrible. Nothing made me happy. The beautiful and warm sun on my skin at the beach could not fill the empty hole in my heart. And yet when I look back, I feel…