http://www.lauraleighparker.com Life Overseas {a missionary blogs of life in Asia} Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:05:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/88ea54a0b2c7b923e211db41c950105b.png?s=48 http://www.lauraleighparker.com http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/11/back-around-3/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/11/back-around-3/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:21:55 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5699 A Look Back On the value of living a life, vulnerable to others. Life in a Fishbowl. A funny story about when my kid told me Jesus was gonna beat me up. A reminder to keep fighting, even when it’s hard. The Swim Upstream. A Look Around Amber’s words nearly always catch my breath. Here [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/11/back-around-3/feed/ 2 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/10/sex-industry-thailand-stories-2/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/10/sex-industry-thailand-stories-2/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:18:03 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5551 “We stop at the stoplight, me and my blonde children in our air-conditioned van, and she appears at my window. She holds up the flowers she is peddling, and she looks at me through the glass with brown eyes that have seen far-too-much already. My kids are dancing to Hannah Montana in the backseat eating [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/10/sex-industry-thailand-stories-2/feed/ 1 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/another-chance-to-win-cool-rings/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/another-chance-to-win-cool-rings/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:31:25 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5449 So, if you’re like me, you don’t get picked to win anything. {Cue sad violin music.} And if you mourned because I gave away some super-awesome rings this summer, and you didn’t win the giveaway– don’t be too depressed. Here’s another chance! For the same rings! Because they are cool and kinda-cheap and I already [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/another-chance-to-win-cool-rings/feed/ 2 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/missions-and-media/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/missions-and-media/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:35:18 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5363  Anybody can have a good website. Anybody. And that includes missionaries and ministries and humanitarian efforts that want and need your money. And oftentimes, what you see IS what you get– honest efforts at helping others, effective means of sharing God’s love with a community whether it be in education or poverty reduction or leadership [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/missions-and-media/feed/ 35 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/05/yeah-dork/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/05/yeah-dork/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 13:31:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=4809 Things You Need to Know, Should You Read Here, Ever, Ever, Ever, At All: 1.  I am a Dork. Yeah, and I wear cheesy shirts proclaiming adoration for my husband.  And then I up and Disco-Dance it in the driveway.  Real cool white-girl-style, I tell ya. 2.  We are Traveling the States this Summer.  We [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/05/yeah-dork/feed/ 16 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/abandoned-hotel-failure/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/abandoned-hotel-failure/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:46:06 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=4572 Throughout Thailand we witness the Abandoned.  We see apartment complexes without inner walls looming above the city block, and we stumble upon entire resorts in rice fields that almost were.  Because, like in so many countries, when the funding for a building project runs out, the building stops. And then the half-finished begins to decay [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/04/abandoned-hotel-failure/feed/ 0 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/01/angry-missionary-incourage/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/01/angry-missionary-incourage/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:59:03 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=3811 Six months ago, I threw my daughter’s bike across the front yard.  Literally. It was most definitely not one of the better moments of my missionary-ish career here, thus far. But I wrote about it anyway. And today you can read the story {about dreams and culture shock} by clicking over to – {In}Courage {Angry Missionary}.]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/01/angry-missionary-incourage/feed/ 14 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/01/back-around/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/01/back-around/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:37:27 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=3722 FYI:  You can also get to this blog via a new address:  http://www.aLifeOverseas.com.  For some people, I figured that would be easier than remembering my name.  The old address will still work, too — one of the wonders of modern technology. @Life Overseas {A photo-heavy article about jumping off a ledge.} @Life Overseas {About a [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/01/back-around/feed/ 3 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/christmas-change-offering/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/christmas-change-offering/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:08:37 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=3097 Living in a Buddhist country, I am surrounded by offerings . . . And I am wondering this Christmas, what their worship should be teaching me about mine. Because perhaps this season we find ourselves in– post-Thanksgiving and pre-New-Year– is mostly about that which is laid on the altar. Head on over to Christmas Change [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/christmas-change-offering/feed/ 1 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/construction/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/construction/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:45:47 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=2979 Yeah, so sometimes I’m an idiot. Okay, a lot of the times. Case in point.  Having just gotten the kids down from an unusually exhausting single-parenting day, I was bored last night. Having just finished my book {Jane Eyre.  Don’t make fun of me; options are limited at used English bookstores in foreign countries.}, I decided [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/construction/feed/ 7 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/back-and-around-3/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/back-and-around-3/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:47:51 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=2833 Back Vlog on leaving family {Leaving, and Being Left} My Toddler Eats Worms on Video {Ava Eats Worms. For Real.} On Gratitude {Two Kitchens} Around On Why Christians Have So Many Stupid Rules, Shaun Groves {Cones and Holes} On Loving Every.Body. Period., Very Worst Missionary {Go, Ahead, Call Him “faggot” Again. Warning-little bit of language [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/11/back-and-around-3/feed/ 6 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/10/mary-demuth-thin-place/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/10/mary-demuth-thin-place/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:29:42 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=2781 I’m guest-posting over at Mary DeMuth’s site today, a story of my own Thin Place, where God gave, extravagantly. If you are visiting from there, thanks for stopping by.  If you enjoy this glimpse into a life on Latitude 18, consider subscribing. It’s free and easy, and you’ll be notified every time a new article [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/10/mary-demuth-thin-place/feed/ 2