Category Archives: Romania
by Katie Van Zanen | Jan 25, 2019
Perhaps my first mistake was expecting that I would ever entirely grow out of it.
by Jenna Griffin | Jan 10, 2019
She said that God had brought us to her, that we were like her children, and that she could be like our Romanian mother.
by Jenna Griffin | Nov 11, 2018
But do we ever really comprehend what happens when we try to meet with God?
by Jenna Griffin | May 10, 2018
Still, I’ve never felt the same level of attachment in any of these places that I’ve felt in Romania. When I step off of the plane in that country, it feels like I’ve come home.
by Jenna Griffin | Jan 10, 2018
This was the year of living with my parents, with my best friends, with a stranger. This was the year of mint tea and French TV shows, of cooking for my friends and of touching the North Sea.
by Jenna Griffin | Nov 10, 2017
You are always you, always becoming you. You’re always your own first person, over and over and over.
by Jenna Griffin | Aug 10, 2017
They’re not always noble or pure, but then of course neither am I. We try our best, and sometimes people climb mountains just to see us blossom in the cold.
by Jack Van Allsburg | Jul 25, 2017
His dangerous trip had unearthed something remarkable: a fully functioning ecosystem that had survived without sunlight and with barely any oxygen for millennia.
