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About Simple Love

It’s hard to talk about life, culture, politics, without feeling like you’re stepping on everyone’s toes. But I don’t think we’re any better for avoiding the hard topics, and in fact we’re getting more and more entrenched in our thought factions. As a result, it makes it hard to engage in conversation with someone who thinks differently without getting triggered immediately.

But what if we could change that?

Simple Love is all about having the tough conversations, with love, sensitivity, and frankness. We dive into politics, parenting, the Christian life, the joys and pitfalls of the digital age, and everything in between. No topic is off-limits, and no conversation is too daunting.

(We may also chat about travel or good food, because I do like to have fun, too.)

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About Me

For the first 12 years of my life, I lived in the same house in Orlando, Florida. We went to the same church my grandparents had been members at since the 1980s, attended a church school wit the same kids grade after grade, and lived less than four hours from all of our close family. Then, the summer of the sixth grade year, my parents sold the house, packed our belongings into six (massive) suitcases, and moved the family to South Korea.

Throughout my teen years, I also lived in the United Arab Emirates and Tanzania and attended a fundamentalist outdoor/farm school in near Moab, Utah (by fair the most wild place I’ve lived, even topping the village in Tanzania where I caught a flesh-eating bacteria).

It’s no wonder I turned to writing, to process my feelings of insignificance in the face of such a big world. In the course of my professional life, I’ve worked in small-town journalism, social media management for national and international nonprofit organizations, and most recently have returned to my love of writing. I now work with several clients writing feature stories and press releases, and also work with Spectrum Magazine where I am editor of The Current, the weekend web editor, and a regular contributor (read two of my articles here and here).

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