D.L. Mayfield is the author of Assimilate Or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith. She has been published in McSweeneys, Christianity Today, Relevant, Geez, Curator, Reject Apathy, and Conspire!. She lives in Portland, OR with her husband and two small children. Visit her at dlmayfield.com.
What would it be like to not be us? We were trying to figure out so much about the world then, and this is something we could never get to the bottom of.