Three days before Halloween someone in our neighborhood put up their Christmas lights, which was far more frightening than any ghoul or...

Well, here we are again. Another birthday for the third and youngest of our children – the now 12-year-old. The clock ticks and she...

I don’t like to be the one to say it, but this a good time to start your holiday shopping. There are 49 days left. And if you have a...

On our return trip from Ghana Sunday afternoon, I barely escaped New York’s JFK airport ahead of Sandy. Having just flown in from the...

It’s official: the SDA School Computer Lab is now up and running! Otis and the other IT instructors know computers. They got everything...

I’m a day behind now because of the extended power outage. It’s about 7:30 a.m. in Ankaase, which means that most people have been up for...

We’ve had no electricity since 6 p.m. yesterday evening. And the data usage ran out on my modem, so last night was spent mostly in the...

This is the bungalow where we are staying. It’s a mission house that was the residence of an amazing family that served here in Ankaase...

When Erin and I were here in May, we roamed the area around our Kumasi hotel hunting for a church but never found one. Well, I found one...

We’re finally here and just finished our first full day. I’m typing at top speed since the electricity is out and my computer battery is...

Life is a journey. So, for this part of the journey, I’ll be saying goodbye until the next stop: Ankaase, Ghana. Thank you for your...

Today is one of those beautiful Saturdays when one of the college kids is home, we all slept in, fall is around the corner, and we’re...

I met an artist in Kumasi, Ghana who sells his work on the street. We were shopping for items to take back to Dillon’s Lunar New Year...

It was a sweltering afternoon in Ankaase Village and the temperature in the schoolroom was even hotter, but at least we were shaded. The...

I’m a rut girl when it comes to exercise, which means that I walk the exact same route at the same pace every morning. And many mornings,...

While the world was still reeling and the dust still settling in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy, we boarded a plane to fly across the...

A few months after my mother died, a mama bird made a nest in the floodlights of our back patio. While we sat in the cool spring air and...

I’ve said in earlier posts that I do not like goodbyes. But on this rainy Friday we said one at a funeral home, and then the final...

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances...

When Kyle and I started dating in college, I would often ask him this question during a long stretch of silence: “So…hey, what are you...