Family
A New Thing
Something very new and exciting is happening at our house! We have a new arrival. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an app! While Kent and I were cloistered with our kids during months of lockdown last spring, Read more…
Family
ARC-EN-CIEL
The ‘Arch in the Sky’ is the way the French say ‘rainbow’. The little prop planes we took over the rainforest in Congo didn’t have instrumentation to fly through clouds and storms without visibility. So often we would get up Read more…
Family
SHALOM
Have you ever studied the Hebrew word ‘shalom’? It is a fascinating study! It means SO much more than the English word ‘peace’. It involves a wholeness, a wellness that surrounds all of the soul. My journey back to painting Read more…
Family
Hope for Current Events
Every time I get a chance to read about how my passport country is doing, it is difficult to digest. Division seems to rule the day. One friend genuinely fears for her safety as a young single mother of two, Read more…
Family
How to Leave Your Kid on the Other Side of the World
This is all new to me. I’ve never sent a kid to college. And certainly never sent one to the other side of the world during a pandemic! There were so many skills I felt he needed. So many supplies, Read more…
Family
Day in the Life: Quarantine Day 11
[Before I journal out what a typical day of Quarantine in Cameroon is like, I want to say there are some big differences between Quarantine here v. in the US with unlimited high-speed internet streaming services, curbside pickups, Amazon deliveries Read more…
Family
Pandemic Super Summer
When James graduated high school here in Cameroon in June, we had little reassurance that he would make it across the globe to begin college. All borders were closed. Europe was closed. The US would welcome us home, but there Read more…
Anthropology
Rough Air
I was intrigued on this trip to see the euphemism “rough air” replace the long used “turbulence.” Probably some focus group somewhere preferred it, but anyway, I thought it was not a bad description of some of the chaos we’re Read more…
Cameroon Culture
Indeterminate Culture Shock
I’ve written before about triviality, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about its application to our current times. That is, for missionaries and others working cross-culturally, there is always an element of adjusting to a new environment and culture. Read more…
Anthropology
My COVID-19 Travel Experience (long)
This trip was probably the least well planned international trip that I have ever taken.