As a CCK-MK-TCK she learned early to navigate and integrate the complex cultural values expressed on Minnesota farms, California cities, Ghanaian villages, and the international missions community. She conducts qualitative and rhetorical research, and writes about intercultural communication from a multi-hemisphere and liminal perspective. She daily brainwashes her CCK kids with Tintin and Asterix comics, indigenous percussion instruments, and a variety of paradoxical paradigms.