Every Story Needs a Villain — And That’s Where Things Get Dangerous Books, movies, and social media all teach us to root for heroes and condemn villains…but does the world need a villain? WHEN I SEE something more than once, I count it as a message from the universe(or inspiration for a good article!). Villains are those who make the story. We love them, we hate them, but one thing we cannot deny is that without them, there would be no story. Just a bunch of self-righteous heroes with no...

How to Find Peace In A Tough Neighborhood: 3 Practices That Changed My Life BAM! BAM! BAM! It was the butt crack of the morning. Our upstairs neighbor was pounding on the door, shouting frantic words through thin wood. My husband and I were sleeping on an airbed in the middle of our roommate’s living room. We had lost our place the year before. It was 2012. We were rebuilding. The neighborhood was unpredictable. Tennis shoes sometimes appeared in the street, strewn about amidst chaotic car...

Sometimes I Wish Chinese Was My First Language This post also appears on my Medium blog😀 In 8th grade, my languages teacher asked us which language we would want to study for the rest of our natural lives. This was in ILA (Integrated Language Arts) class. That year, I took an intro to languages course that featured Latin, Spanish, German, and French. No Chinese language was offered. The language that seemed to roll smoothly off my tongue and make me sound like a natural speaker of that...