Lessons Learned in West Africa
I remember our first days in West Africa. We’d been using rental cars while we waited for our truck to arrive and the rental cars repeatedly broke down or needed something fixed or fell apart while we were driving them. We were driving on a narrow, sandy path to get to our house and our […]
Holding the Good and the Hard
I bought clothes at a local second hand shop a few months back—a Paw Patrol shirt for my five year-old, a cute little white onesie with a pink and gold strawberry in the middle for the baby still growing inside me. “We live here now,” I thought. Buying clothes at the local secondhand shop instead […]
God, What Are You Doing?
Our mask mandate just lifted this week. It seems that life will be returning to some semblance of normal as we get used to breathing the unfiltered air and seeing each other’s faces again. California’s mandates and guidelines have been some of the most extreme in the United States but I have heard the stories […]
This Week’s Theme: The View From Here (Global)
What’s the view from where you are? At the start of the pandemic, we had the mindset, “We’re in this together.” But now our experiences differ vastly depending on where we are. Some parts of the world are free and open. Others are slowly coming out of yet another lockdown. Some are still in the […]