• Community. Education.

    Community. Education.

    or: “It takes a village to teach a child” NOTE: this was something I wrote back in Kibuye about a month and a half ago – before we even thought we might be heading out. It feels like right now, more than ever, a lot of people are talking about community. Mostly it seems to…

  • heard around our house since we’ve been back

    So we’ve been back in Canada for three weeks now – the first time our family has been here in 3 years. And like last time we were here, there always seem to be things that catch us off guard. NOTE: I hesitated to post this, as I realize it can easily be taken as…

  • A Day for Mothers

    A Day for Mothers

    Saying something supportive and celebratory about mothers seems a bit odd. It’s like celebrating kindness, or an end to war, or ice cream. Of COURSE, we all love, support, celebrate those things. It’s just human nature to do so -only a monster would not be happy about things like a great cup of coffee, or…

  • what I learned going through a traumatic event

    I had never before experienced anything like what happened in our home in February. The closest was a time when we lived in Kazakhstan where we (Susan, her sister visiting from Japan, and I) were abducted by a rogue taxi driver late at night and we were only able to escape when the car we…