I’m Bored…has a nice ring to it now!

I remember all the years as a young girl where the worst thing in life was to be bored.  It killed me.  I’d sigh HUGE loud sighs until my mom would notice.  “I’m so bored!” I’d say.  It was dangerous, however, to say this to my mom, as she had the best remedy for boredom….the [...]

In Memory

Many of you know that I grew up a Missionary’s Kid in Bolivia. Here’s a picture of me in the jungles, around 1967.

My parents began their lifelong mission career working with the Ayoreos in Bolivia.  What many of you may not know is that right before my parents started working with the Ayore tribe, 5 [...]

Frustrated over a Fly.

Okay, I can’t take it anymore. There’s a fly who has decided to fly into my car and live there.  It’s very irritational (you can use that word if you want).  I get in to my car, listen, smile because I think, “Hmmm, the fly must have flown.”  But no, just as I settle in, turn [...]

Seems so long ago..

…Bethany is home on Spring Break and so Rob, Robbin and I watched a movie she had to watch for her Spanish class over Spring Break called Machuca.
Here’s a summary of the plot:
In 1973, in Santiago of Chile of the first socialist president democratically elected in a Latin-American country, President Salvador Allende, the principal of the [...]

Tear gas, Military coups, Hankekepa and more!

A friend of mine and I were talking the other day – she was telling me that the S.W.A.T. team was in their neighborhood the other day, tear gas and all. Seemed a neighbor had waved a gun in a nearby gas station…it reminded me that I have had very unusual things happen in my [...]