Currents August 2026 (English and Spanish)
I feel like the last few months have flown by. My family has added a new daughter-in-law, celebrated birthdays and anniversaries, traveled together, and moved to a new city. I…
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The Beauty of Imperfect Families (English and Spanish)
When I got married, I set a goal for myself. I wanted to be a great husband and decided that I was never going to make my wife sad. I…
Meet Our WAVE: Eldoret Kenya (English and Spanish)
“We are free to choose and willingly accept responsibility for our choices.” The women in the Eldoret Kenya WAVE and their president, Immaculate Nachaki, embody this month’s tenet. In a…
Meet Our WAVE! Bountiful Uganda Kiryowa (English & Spanish)
Uganda is a landlocked East African nation located on the equator and known for its immense biodiversity. It’s also known by Big Ocean Women as the home of three active…
Glorias, Grace, Green Grasshoppers, and Garden Paths (English & Spanish)
This week spring arrived. I knew it was spring from the soft caress of the grass under my bare feet when I went to take the dogs out in the…
New WAVEs Leadership Training Graduations English and Spanish
We are so excited to announce the following five WAVEs have graduated from the Big Ocean Women WAVE training and planned and carried out their first independent projects and are…
By Degrees
Back when I was first married, my sweet husband suggested we go to the tennis courts and he would teach me to play tennis. I was excited at the idea…
Learning From My Tomato Plant
When I look back on this summer, I will remember our sweet cherry tomato plant and the delight it brought to my soul. It lives in a pot on the…
New Traditions of Connection After Divorce
(Lead photo credit: Benjamin Manley via Unsplash) In the northern hemisphere, winter is giving way to spring. With more light and warmth, new life is emerging, ushering in a new…
On Comings and Goings
You know what is often forgotten, when we talk about family? It is the unspoken moments, the feel, the sense of individual members of the same people, the same tribe,…
My Motherhood Molding
(Trigger Warning: Premature Birth Experience) “We’ll need to transfer you to another hospital. We aren’t equipped for a preemie this small.” Those were the words that drove home the reality…
Recipe: Amish Friendship Bread
The idea of friendship breads which draw the rising agent from the environment and then continue to growas they’re nurtured and shared goes so well with November’s tenet, “We believe…