About a week before I left, Kyle and I had the idea to throw a dinner party for the Rising Village families. We thought this would be an...

When I land in Ghana, sometimes it takes a couple of days to emerge from the slight culture shock. I feel as if there is so little that...

I’m not a shopper, but we trekked through the streets of Kumasi (no small feat, see photo below) and when we returned to the Mission...

Here is what I didn’t know about eating in Ghana: we eat the chicken bones, we don’t leave them on the plate. I’m not picky about my...

Colin says that I have a technology curse. I think he might be right. So, we had to drive into Kumasi today – our first day in the...

We’ve packed the cheese and the onesies, the flashcards, the chalk, the extension cord and the conversation hearts, along with just a few...

I’m posting this because we set a goal and it would be so wonderful to reach it before we leave for Ghana on Monday. I’ve been thinking...

You people amaze me. Today, I had all ages of friends coming to my door with sacks of school supplies for children and teachers in Ghana....

I try not to start things that I don’t intend to finish. This used to be a pattern with me – uncompleted projects were scattered throughout our house, including files of the first several chapters of different novels I tried to write and drawers filled with unfinished photo scrapbooks. After decades of beating myself up over this tendency, I decided to ditch it. I began to raise the red flag for myself whenever I uttered the words, “That would be a cool thing to do.” So now,

There is a great story that makes its way around the Internet about a commencement speech given by Winston Churchill, in which he stood...

I’m not much of a party girl. At least not the kind of party that requires save-the-dates, printed invitations, sparkly decorations, a...

I haven’t blogged in three months and I’m not proud of this. The last time you heard from me I had sore legs from hiking and was reading...

We’ve hiked ourselves silly. Today, a cool rain began about 10:30 a.m. and is continuing, slow and steady. It started just as we were...

I’ve decided to take most of my photos on this vacation with my iPhone and then filter the heck out of them. And I have good reasons...

I’m not much for ruts. I don’t like doing the same thing the same way over long periods of time, but I make an exception for this place....

In college, my dear friend and roommate, Steffani, cut my hair. And then she sat down in the chair I had been in and I cut her hair. We...

Yesterday was my birthday and I spent an hour of it in the dentist’s chair. By choice. I’m not proud of myself for scheduling a dentist...

I always promise myself that the week after I return from Ghana there will be at least five days when I will not be fidgety. I will take...

We’re sitting in the DFW airport waiting on our last flight that will take us to Tulsa. It’s always an odd feeling to come home....

I’m sitting in the Mission House catching a cool breeze (relatively speaking) through the open window and reflecting on the time we’ve...