Category: Family

Our jungle-living experience significanlty improved the other day when our co-workers, the Tousches, finally rejoined us here in the bush! Yay! The old adage “better late than never” has never proved more true.* Having them back with us has been SUCH a blessing! We hadn’t quite realized how starved we were for interraction with other […]

[FYI: This post contains an affiliate link. We will get a small kickback if this item is purchased via our site.] We arrived back in the bush a little while ago after taking a couple weeks’ break out at one of our mission centers (which was AWESOME!). After celebrating the holidays in a cooler climate, […]

Recently, after being out in town for a couple of weeks, having some long talks with some of the “big cheeses” of our organization, and making a few earth-shatteringly huge ministry decisions, we eventually were able to fly back into our quiet little bush location… just in time to host a dental team that had […]

Our village got hit with a bit of bad news this last year when they were informed that they would not be receiving a schoolteacher for their community. They had been working over the last several years trying to get a small government school started in our remote little village (we are 5 hours from […]

We are not dead. I know, it may have APPEARED like we had fallen off the face of the earth three months ago, when we began an unplanned, near-complete-cessation of public communications, but we DID NOT. No, the reasons for our silence were much less dramatic. Basically, when you boil down our litany of excuses, […]

[So, here’s the deal: I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, but, due to the pitiful protestations of the last ragged vestiges of my feeble pride, I never published it. Since then, however, my pride seems to have given up any hope of reclaiming its former glory*, and I have decided to go […]

Not everyone knows this about me, but I have insomnia. It first started right about the time we arrived in PNG and began our language study in 2015, and it has been going strong ever since. Now, I know that correlation does not equal causation, but I am a Millennial, and have an inherent need […]

I have been able to drop about 15 pounds since arriving back in our village a month and a half ago. Having spent a fair bit of time on the “husky” side of the scale lately, it’s been nice to finally see a bit of movement in this other, less blubbery, direction. I still have […]

I was going to write about language-learning woes today, because that is where my mind is at these days. As I pondered my potential prose however, I was reminded of a post I did a while ago on that same subject. I went back and reread that other post and was impressed with how aptly […]