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(No, there is no picture to go with this post – be glad!) I noticed that my shower drain was backing up badly all of a sudden, which usually means that there is hair in it. But when I got a stick (we use fancy tools here) and tried to get the hair out, it […]

What have I been up to since I last wrote?  Here are a few of the highlights: — Earlier this month I got to go to a wedding of My People where they had their traditional dancing.  It often takes place in the middle of the night, with a bit in afternoons, in the village.  […]

I have a neighbor here who wants to try to get a job in Canada. One of the steps is to have a certain website give the official equivalent of her degree, and since the website is in English she asked for my help. And what should have been an easy process reminded me again […]

I very much enjoyed summer in the US this year – lots of getting together with people, boating, frozen custard, seeing family and friends, etc.  My time there seemed very short, but I’m grateful for the time I did have.  Thanks for taking the time to get together and get caught up for those I […]

Thanks for your prayers!  I made it through a month of traveling and have now landed where I grew up for a few months!   So where did you go along the way?  Good question!  I helped and learned at a workshop in Ivory Coast.  Then I visited friends in Germany while waiting for a secular […]

Thanks for your prayers!  My language and culture consultant was out here last week and she said that I’m at the level I need to be at!  (For those of you who know the terminology, I’m at “capable-high”.)  This doesn’t mean that I’m done learning by any means, but it means that I should now […]

This morning Adama* told me something that is breaking my heart and reminding me even more of why I’m here.  We were talking about God, and how He doesn’t need anything.  Adama added that He doesn’t want anything either.  I objected, saying that, for example, God wants us to follow Him. He objected, saying that […]

How do you like the picture above?  Does it just make you stand in awe of what God does?  No, not yet?  Ok, let me share the backstory, and I think that you’ll be excited about it, too. If you remember, a month ago I shared about a trip I was going to take to […]

In 2015 I was on a People Group Assessment (PGA) trip in a remote corner of Guinea.  It was a memorable trip, what with our car getting a flat tire, so having to take motorcycles, driving through brackish water, falling off motorcycles, and every meal being way too spicy for me to be able to […]

I’m a horrible speller. Ok, I’m a lot better now. But I at least used to be a horrible speller. I remember my parents coming home from parent-teacher conferences when I was in 5th grade and telling me how they went. Academically, my teacher had said that I was doing great. (She had other concerns, […]