So today you get to hear from a missionary in Bolivia with the cutest dimples, ever. She’s an adoptive mom who’s logged years overseas already. She loves on children at the House of Dreams Orphanage and writes funny and honest on the super-fun, must-visit blog, The @. You can follow @ngie on Twitter, atangie. Un-commonality [...]
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I’ve been back in the States now for two weeks, after more than a year living outside its borders. Call it reverse-culture-shock, but here’s what I’ve observed about my homeland that I didn’t quite notice before: 1. Subway has too many choices. It’s confusing. And it’s hard to read the menu. 2. America is really clean. [...]
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We had heard that ex-Navy SEALS go in under cloak of darkness. We had heard they relocate entire villages minutes before the Burmese Army descends to destroy homes, families, and lives. We envisioned them in full army gear with green paint on their faces and ninja-moves like Jackie Chan. For about five years, actually, we’d [...]
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Enjoy this re-posting from the archives about how the rolling of my eyes in church one day led to tears in those same very eyes during the singing of a certain song. And I’m not one to cry-much. Originally written October 2010. So I’ve been honest about my church snobbery in the past {and all [...]
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Some Stats 12: years married, by Monday of next week. 13: times moved, by the same day. And the process of moving begins, again, for our family today. Finding the lost Connect Four chips under the couch. Dragging out the suitcases from storage and checking for spiders. Sorting clothes and art projects and broken legs [...]
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{Staff of Breanna’s House of Joy: Wipada (accounting), ChatChai (director), Matt (chairman of foundation), Judah (maintenance and driver), Leah (cook), Gay (house mother), Ahlameet (house mother), Ben (exec. assistant, English teacher)} We celebrate the beautiful and the famous and the ones on stage. We admire the ones with graphic-blogs and lots of fans on twitter. [...]
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Asking for money is not something I enjoy. Nor is it something I do all that often. In fact, over the past year and half of blogging here, even though our family’s salary is completely donor-based and even though we are surrounded by poverty on a daily basis, to the best of my memory, I’ve only [...]
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Our family is heading down south to the beach this week. It’s one of our first official family vacations with just we-five, and the anticipation has carried us through the past month. But, it’s hard to spend the money on vacation, isn’t it? It’s painful to spend cash on an intangible experience when the same [...]
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This year has marked each of us, uniquely. And I wonder, today, what my kids will say about their Thailand experience, thus far. I wonder if they’ll be excited to use “elephant riding” as a truth when they play “Two Truths and a Lie” at summer camp some day. I wonder if they’ll have hearts [...]
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We started this year with stars in our eyes– big plans to save the world and all that. We were stuffed-full of glossy-idealism and the dramatic-Following. And maybe I’m being too hard on myself, on us, but somehow, I don’t really think so. Because when the heat gets turned up, the true gold shines through– [...]
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How do you deal with culture shock? Good question, and I’m not sure I have the answers, but I do have some thoughts on handling the realities of culture shock through that critical first year in a new country. I wanted to talk about it, before I forgot about it – What are your thoughts/stories [...]
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ALifeOverseas.com / LauraParkerBlog.com.
My family is living overseas in Thailand, where my husband is directing a Christian Humanitarian Foundation. This blog is the honest recording of our journey– squatty potties and all. 
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