but he’s (apparently) feeling 22. So as of today we have a kid who’s twenty-two years old. I’m not sure who feels older about that – him, or me. Strange when your kids become what feels like closer to your age. Like now we’re both adults. But it has been amazing to see everything he…

So today marks our ninth Christmas here in East Africa. (!) Christmas of 2015 we had just evacuated Bujumbura and spent the holidays in what was – at the time, the home of strangers in Kibuye – who turned out to be long-time teammates and lifelong friends. Christmases 2016, through 2020 were all spent in…

To be honest part of the reason (I think) I’ve hesitated posting on the blog this last while, is that there are several hard things that I wasn’t ready to deal with. One of them was our departure from Rwanda. I realized just a few months ago that I never let myself grieve for the…

Well, hello there again. No, it’s not you – this blog has been on pause for {checks notes} well over a year! That’s – by a long shot – the longest break since we started back when our family first moved to France in 2010. Just writing that down is shocking to me: If you…