Work is underway in the playroom. After the disaster in January, we took our time replacing carpet and making repairs. But now… we’re making it look like we want to… although it’s easy, from time to time, to get distracted….
Read moreWhat is a day? Twenty-four hours of sixty minutes each, and these divided into sixty seconds. You’ll sleep for eight of those hours, if you’re lucky. Today was a beautiful day: cloudless blue, mid-eighties at the highest, virtually humidity-free. We spent it indoors, painting. It had to be done. The disaster happened in January, for […]
Read moreLast Friday I met with my school’s headmaster to talk curriculum. In all honesty, I had done no work on curriculum since the end of the school year, because the day after school ended, I was on a plane to Kenya. I didn’t pack any textbooks. It took Some Doing to bring my mind back […]
Read moreWhen we were in Kenya, Bill and Carolyn (Bill’s father and stepmother) had not yet sold their house. The house they’ve lived in for 24 years; the house in which they combined their two families; the house on whose family room floor, nineteen years ago, I fell in love with my husband. Now it is […]
Read moreI’ve always been pleased with the fact that our church recycles the Sunday bulletin. You know what the bulletin is, right? That little flier they hand out when you walk into the church that contains general announcements pertaining to the church and (sometimes) the order of service. Our church has two services every Sunday and, […]
Read moreWhat you can do, see, is to visit this giraffe reserve. It isn’t terribly far from Ongata Rongai, the town in which Beacon of Hope is situated. On our last day at Beacon, we stopped by here. You can feed the giraffes. The food is free: little pellets you hold in your hand. The giraffes […]
Read moreIt’s hot here. HOT. The only place to be on a day like today in a place like this one is a swimming pool. Or indoors, with the air conditioner running. I am Not Happy about this. As I drove down the road today on one of Too Many Errands, I looked at the trees […]
Read moreI didn’t hear the doorbell ring, because William was trying to protect my nap. Yes, William, the one who has been sick. He is, Praise Be, much better now– playing and goofing off with his siblings, coughing only very occasionally, fever free, taking his meds. We are very nearly out of the woods, I think. […]
Read moreWeaving Tuesday, June 05, 2007 We had our choice today at Beacon of Hope. We could work with the children; we could work in the clinic; we could work with the women who weave.Beacon has always meant “weaving” to me. That was the first thing I knew of Beacon of Hope: women infected and affected […]
Read moreI am delighted to interrupt my cleaning-my-classroom-evaluating-curriculum-orderingtext-books-for-next-year-meeting-with-my-professor-and-program-director-at-Duke-doing-laundry-and-doing-laundry-and-doing-laundry-packing-and-packing-and-packing to welcome a new blog to the world. Yes, I am pleased to introduce you to Imparting Grace, Richella’s blog. Not yet a week old, the blog promises to be an outlet for Richella’s rich wisdom, wisdom that my friend Rachel and many other young women enjoy at […]
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