It started raining at about 5:30 pm while church was on. Lightly at first, then a downpour. The things of church quickly left my mind as I began to think about my pour goats, tethered out there in the pouring rain. So I drove home, put the goats into their brand new home and drove … [Read more…]
About 5 weeks ago, I drove a 13-year-old to a private pediatricians clinic. The boy had been steadily declining in his condition of stiff joints and severe pain for 6 months. His parents had brought him to a local doctor who had said that he had rheumatic fever and prescribed some antibiotics and other things. … [Read more…]
WARNING: MAYBE SOME OF YOU DON’T WANT TO READ THIS My red baseball cap is on the floor of the bathroom in Pollo Campero (Country Chicken fast food joint in Guatemala City). My elbows hurt and so does the back of my head. I hunch over the sink and breath and slowly wash my hands. … [Read more…]
I got the Harper’s Weekly Review email today, so I’m going to try and write my day out in a similar fashion. The paper cutter arrived at the stationary store and so Flor and I cut translated verses up and stapled them to letters to children’s sponsors. Pablo hasn’t shown up to school since telling … [Read more…]
For those faithful readers, I thought I would go back a few posts and provide an up-to-date report on some recent events (rather than post comments on 2-month-old posts): Frutas Extranjeras: Found out that the jocote is also known as the spondias mombin, the gully plum, the Spanish plum, the hog plum, the Ashanti plum, … [Read more…]
We are cooperating with Helps International to provide special stoves to families that need them. The stoves were purchased through a variety of gifts from Canada. Two men came out to do a demo of the stove for interested families from our school and church. They put the stove together in front of us in … [Read more…]
don’t stop, I’m gonna FREAK OUT! Or get tested for TB! A dry cough started on Wednesday night last week, nothing major, could have been dust. By Saturday night I was convulsing. The past three nights I have slept on a foam in the office so as not to keep Amber awake with my coughing. … [Read more…]
I can still remember Miss Fitch in grade 4 telling my class to sit up straight and not to slouch. If only I had obeyed! Now I have a distinct cromagnon angle for my neck and I’ve lost perhaps 2 inches of visible height (which isn’t all that necessary in Guatemala, but still…). I just … [Read more…]
My nose started to run last night, so I decided to smash it behind the knees with this potent cocktail: +3 Cold-fx capsules (600mg of CVT-E002) (or N.A. ginseng)+5 drops of Grapefruit Seed Extract (here a sham or there the world’s most useful product)+1 capsule Garlic Oil (3 mg)+5 drops of Oil of Oregano under … [Read more…]
This is what happens to my bald head far too often. The worst has come here in Guatemala where some families use old, rusty barbed wire for clotheslines. They stand at a height of 5’6″, whereas I stand at a towering 5’10”. Usually, wearing a cap helps cushion a blow, but not every time. Another … [Read more…]