Nancy B

Joined July 2019

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Find my writing in “Mixed Korean: Our Stories," "Together At Last: Stories of Adoption and Reunion in the Age of DNA," Cultural Daily and Women in Theology. Passionate about herbal health and inspiration.

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I Am Not Invisible
She interviews for the same job, the nicely dressed Black woman. You hire me instead. You feel good. Equal Opportunity.
By Nancy B3 years ago in Humans
Lamenting Yellow Peril During AAPI Month As We Face Evil And Rise. Top Story - May 2022.
If you didn’t know, there was another Asian Hate Crime in Dallas last week. A man walked into a hair salon and began shooting. I happened to wake up to this news on Thursday morning. It felt like another punch of fear to my gut as I thought about another one of my sisters (자매), brothers (형제), aunties (이모), or uncles (삼촌) fallen prey to evil. Another terrorist thinking that all Asians look alike? I’m not sure where this hatred comes from. But I know God, and with God I face evil and rise.
By Nancy B4 years ago in Humans
What If Silence Is The Voice That Helps You Know What To Do Next?
For the mass majority, silence has only become connected to meditation. But can silence be that voice that guides and redirects? I think so. Even if its short spans of silence. The Voice can guide, redirect, and remind you that you are loved and valued. When you know you are loved, you listen to your heart and know what you need to do next.
By Nancy B4 years ago in Psyche
The Moment My Heart Stopped
There it was, The look. The eyes piercing through me, Making my toes curl. I turn away, Hoping to recoil into my drink.
By Nancy B4 years ago in Poets
Five Ways to Add Refreshment to Your Soul in the New Year
The holidays are over. For some, it has been another stressful family event. For some, it might be hanging on through the loneliness because you missed gathering with family or having no family. Still, it was an incredible time of joy for some because you celebrated in the way you wanted. That was me.
By Nancy B4 years ago in Longevity
Another year with COVID: Are You Learning to Accept and Live With It?
First it was COVID (the common name) and then it was SARS-2. The next variant of COVID was Delta. Now we have Omicron. The time span has been two full years, and globally, we are all learning to live with it, but are you accepting it?
By Nancy B4 years ago in Psyche
The Scream of a Love Affair
Being the only female in an all-male department creates its own awkwardness, but later becomes more pronounced when the testosterone talk makes Christina uncomfortable. Eventually, she learns to head for the darkroom to create proofs.
By Nancy B4 years ago in Fiction
Hope for the Unimaginable Doesn’t Always Alter Your End Game
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, the definition of hope is “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen,” or “a feeling of trust.”
By Nancy B4 years ago in Psyche
The Exhaustion Took Over My Body with The Speed of a Fast Race Car
I couldn’t get up. I woke up, the sun pouring into our wall of windows, but my body wouldn’t move, and my brain was stuck in neutral. As I stared up at the ceiling, the minutes turned into hours.
By Nancy B4 years ago in Longevity
How Gratitude Changed My Attitude and Made Me A Badass
Gratitude was not a word or action I knew or understood as a trauma-induced child. Oh, wait. Forgive me. I knew gratitude because I was told to be grateful. It was more like, “You better be thankful I’m doing this for you!”
By Nancy B4 years ago in Motivation
When Dreams Shatter Make Lemonade Until You Run Out of Lemons
The story goes like this. I grew up on three different continents attending American International Schools. I was a straight-A student for the first 14 years of my life. Then, my family and I moved to the United States. The doom of inculturation, othering and entitlement swirled around me like a whirlpool grabbing my legs, pulling me into an abyss of academic failure. I was not prepared for any of this.
By Nancy B4 years ago in Education
Three Reasons Growing up Third Culture Helped Me Enjoy the Moment
"A global soul is a person who had grown up in many cultures all at once – and so lived in the cracks between them."– Pico Iyer
By Nancy B4 years ago in Wander

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I Am Not Invisible

Lamenting Yellow Peril During AAPI Month As We Face Evil And Rise. Top Story - May 2022.

What If Silence Is The Voice That Helps You Know What To Do Next?

The Moment My Heart Stopped

Five Ways to Add Refreshment to Your Soul in the New Year

Another year with COVID: Are You Learning to Accept and Live With It?

The Scream of a Love Affair

Hope for the Unimaginable Doesn’t Always Alter Your End Game

The Exhaustion Took Over My Body with The Speed of a Fast Race Car

How Gratitude Changed My Attitude and Made Me A Badass

When Dreams Shatter Make Lemonade Until You Run Out of Lemons

Three Reasons Growing up Third Culture Helped Me Enjoy the Moment

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