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so…we’re back – and apparently we’ve been preparing for this
Today our family is 11 days into our mandatory 14-day self-isolation, the requirement for returning to Canada from overseas. It’s been filled with yard work, school at home, house projects, and appropriately socially distanced visiting. Our house here which we’ve owned for 12 years and rented out for the last 10, has been vacant for…
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Boarding Passes and Book Bags
In case you’d like a slightly different perspective on our experiences here – our daughter Matea, and our fake daughter Ella (her fake twin) have started a blog. Two amazing young women who have some great things to share Our African Home is now live for your reading pleasure!
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Maundy Thursday – a reflection on betrayal.
Today is the day before Good Friday, just over halfway from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. A strange day referred to in the traditional Christan calendar as “Maundy Thursday.” Or, as most kids who grew up in church think it’s called: “Monday-Thursday” It coincides with the traditional celebration of the Seder Supper – the marking…
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Burundi transport
There are a lot of peculiarities to how people move around this country. No…scratch that. There are a lot of peculiarities to how people move around this country. There are a lot of things that we find peculiar about how people move around this country. Of course, to those who have lived here their whole…