We have been in Tanzania 5 years. Which, since we said we’d come for about 10 puts us at the halfway mark. Yikes! Cos it feels like we haven’t really done anything yet! This is exactly what we expected of course. CMS talks to its workers about their 3 year […]
Red Twin and I are 35 this week. This will probably be the last birthday for which Red Twin is with us. I’ll have the rest on my own. I’ve been thinking about growing old, especially about being 70, because I guess that will nominally be the birthday that marks […]
A friend shared this and I really enjoyed it — lots of layers, with messages for everyone. Nazif short film on Facebook The description from the producer, Film Lab Kenya, reads: Nazif is a man of Muslim background and the father of Aisha, his four year old beautiful yet hyperactive […]
As I work through the Spiritual Disciplines Handbook with a friend, I’ve started using the Examen, an Ignatian/Jesuit prayer approach. It’s about noticing yourself and your time in the presence of God, an ‘examination of consciousness’ (the Latin word refers to a scales for weighing). It’s traditionally used at noon […]
Over Advent I did a series of Facebook posts of some of the activities I did with my boys: making a nativity set, angel wings, a game with a star that they follow, a puppet show. I periodically put some of our craft and sensory activities on Facebook, and generally […]
A friend of mine says that even though she’s been married for 35 years, she’s been married to maybe 5 or 6 different men. What she means is that the man she married at their wedding is not the man she’s married to today: he has changed, and marriage is […]
If I had New Years resolutions, my top one every year would be ‘keep learning.’ The world is big and fascinating and complex, with so much to be explored. Here are three things about my cross-cultural life that I’ve learned this year. In the next post I’ll share some things […]
Meet Jesus at uni 