Garlic Salt

Before I flew out of Shanghai, A asked me to do one thing for him. Please don't laugh at the Fujianese - everybody on my mission did . ...

In some ways, celebrating Christmas in a largely atheist country means that you have to get creative and be prepared for the heart melting ...

I have a legit neck phobia. Ever since I was a little kid, I have always been convinced that I will be murdered getting pierced through the...

The best thing about expanding the team is that we're getting a whole new crew of awesome people with even better names. I've menti...

I picked him because his last name was Bragg. He sounded kind of gangster even though he'd been dead for more than 250 years and he was...

We stood in our adolescent awkwardness, self-consciously tugging at our cling film-esque navy school swimming suits, while waiting for our ...

In between agonizing over Hebrew labels of chips at gas stations, pulling up Bible references of Christ's ministry at Capernaum/Sea of G...

Beneath the red plastic streamers hung from the yellow lamps in a cheerful effort to look festively Asian, we sat in silence, trying to figu...

Exactly 39 minutes after I posted my whiny blog post comparing wisdom teeth pains to period pains, I got this email: "Hi Sisi, Pls ...

Some call it spineless. Others call it whipped. Here, we just call it financial planning. As far as I can tell, it is pretty miserable to ...

Mom: "So who wants to say the prayer?" I bent down gingerly and sank to my knees, cradling my sleeping niece on my chest, to joi...

I am a Twitter neub (@sisimessick) and decided to poke around the world of hashtags and shortened URLs to figure out how to make myself soun...

I told a guy friend on skype today that I was thinking of growing out my hair. Without hesitation or the slightest reservation, he wrote ...

As I walked into the office bathroom this morning, the cleaning ayi stormed out. I asked her if everything was ok. She shook her head, dangl...

One unreasonably late night, around two months ago, I sent in my resume for a job to fold clothes. There were definite pros and cons in th...

One of the guys on my team, Sam, is a Communist Party member in excellent standing. So excellent that we've already had to give him thre...

When the bishop gives me an assignment to read church talks about the joys of marriage every single night, I'm like: And then, ...

The evening shows that feature "Direct from Las Vegas" probably means "Retired from Las Vegas." Forty year old male pe...

For an end-of-year party at school, Jody watched Super Size Me , a documentary of a guy who eats McDonald's every day for a long time, w...

I casually glanced at the sent column of the email I had just received. My head rocked backwards. I squinted and checked again to make...