Free Pizza!

September 28, 2016

My grandkids get free pizza when they read a certain amount of books. I think that’s really cool. Even though all I used to get was IN TROUBLE for reading too many books! 🙂 Well, maybe I was doing that instead of what I was supposed to be doing…but I always figured reading was a […]

Rewards

September 18, 2016

The summer Olympics are over. There were many winners and many losers. But there are some who didn’t win a single thing that are real winners in my book. Like Nikki Hamblin from New Zealand and Abbey D’Agostino of the USA who both fell and then took time to help each other up to limp […]

“Now I Can Get off at the Right Bus Stop!”

August 15, 2016

“Now I can get off at the right bus stop!” Yes, those were the words someone shouted with much joy in my…phonetics class! I HAD to stop and say, ‘What?!’ It just so happens that he had been overseas for a year or so already, attempting to learn a new language. But he’d never been […]

Home Again! (Thanks for praying!)

September 3, 2015

Yes, I’m home again! Jetlag, a broken car door, a dead lawn mower and weed whacker, and 100+ emails in my inbox… all waiting eagerly to welcome me home. 🙂 But I feel like I am slowly merging back into the rush-hour traffic called the USA. PNG seemed like a leisurely drive in the countryside […]

First Class

July 31, 2015

As I flew out of the Sepik region Friday morning it was first class. But don’t be jealous. Yes, I was in row 1 but it wasn’t a luxury seat. There was very little leg room for my cramped feet and nowhere to put my carry-on. But the view out the window was definitely first class. Once […]