I just made it back to Uganda, where I’ll start teaching tomorrow, after a rushed but beautiful visit across the border to Kenya. The trip concluded, as any good movie should, with a good high-speed chase punctuated by gun fire. Ok, it wasn’t actually gunfire, but I was riding helmet-less and bare-armed on the back [...]
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If you have a broom
Jun 28
Not Huddling in the Cold
May 11
On Easter morning my husband asked our daughter Phoebe, age six, to say the prayer. She bowed her head shyly but obediently.
“Thank you God for this nice home and food. Thank you we’re not huddling in the cold. Help poor people and lonely people. Amen.”
I have never before or since heard her use the phrase [...]
Six Suitcases: On Moving
May 4
The six suitcases and four smaller carry-on bags stacked in the corner of our bedroom hardly even blocked the way around the bed. Was that all that was left to carry away from something so formative as nearly four years in a foreign culture?
