As we start to wrap up life here, it has obviously led to a lot of thought and reflection about our time here and our usefulness. It was another hard season, to be sure. We are still in the thick of it, and I think it will take a fair Read more…
Recently my husband and I were flying internationally. A little less than 24 hours before the flight, he went to do online check-in. But only his name was there. Mine was missing entirely from the reservation. We checked and double checked emails. After a few international phone calls we sorted Read more…
In May we quietly filled out some paperwork and started the hoop-jumping, form-filling, important-paper-collecting process of getting a green card for my husband. We prayed about the timing, knowing that at some stage we’d need to be able to live in one or the other of our countries of origin Read more…
Each week at church a portion of the service is for “Prayers of the People.” Each week it’s a different member of the congregation who has prepared in advance and comes up to pray for a few minutes. The very general guidelines are prayers for the world, the Church, and Read more…
We got very sad news this week. A dear friend–a man who was in our wedding, who was an important friend to my husband, a man who charmed everyone he met, and who had a tremendous heart–he took his own life last week. It came as a total shock. We Read more…
Short term missions trips have gotten a lot of flack the last few years (see here: here, here , here) and I really could not be happier about it. Let’s ignore the exceptions here—the cases where the trips are really actually good and beneficial to local communities (like doctors visiting remote villages, Read more…
I read a lot about organics, nature, and green living. I love it: soil and vegetables and food science. Most of the news in these areas is pretty depressing these days. Pesticides killing off bee populations, soil is eroding, clean drinking water is dwindling, more and more plants and animals Read more…
A little reflection on turing 30 that I shared on social media: I was running this morning, on the day I turn thirty, and remembering a list I made sometime on my early/mid-twenties of thirty things to do before I turn thirty. I lost my “Thirty before Thirty” list years Read more…
It was a bustling week at work this past week. In part because there was a lot going on with my own programs—meetings for our job placement office and a graduation for our adult ed program—but also because it was the first week in months that we had food parcels Read more…
Last weekend was our first anniversary and we went away to the coast. We hadn’t planned on doing any work of course, but our organization runs a pregnancy and a baby and child clinic there for Syrians and we have a report due to the donor this week. So we Read more…