by Charity Lee Jennings | Jan 24, 2023
A Star-Filled Sky I’ve told you the stories I’ve told you the stories, how our oldest couldn’t renew his visa, how our boys left home, how we followed not long after. How our life was turned upside-down. I’ve told of the sadness of saying good-bye. Of...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Mar 9, 2022
A World Away Their healing scent has filled these lands for a hundred years. As I reach the bridge, they’re in full view. Rows of massive eucalyptus trees following each side of River Pan Long far into the distance. Leaves and pods litter the path that...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Oct 22, 2021
Original Artwork by Charity Lee Jennings Read Part 1 of the story here. “The taxi driver dropped us in the wrong spot,” Brian said over the phone. I glanced at my watch. They’d already had one Covid test that day but couldn’t get the results in time. The second...
by Charity Lee Jennings | Sep 23, 2021
A Race I Didn’t Want To Win It was meant to be Malachi and Zachary’s last day in China and Brian was in search of a restaurant. “Cheap,” he thought, “we’ve already put so much money into plane tickets…but special.” Beef Noodle Soup was the perfect...
by Charity Lee Jennings | May 19, 2021
Liberation Tower “I heard back from the Consulate,” I told Brian. “Either the boys or one of us needs to be there in person, since they’re switching from child to adult passports.” “What! Travel to another province? With all that’s going on with Covid?” ...
