I know I may risk losing readers, but most of you don’t leave comments anyway… I know my faithful readers will stick with me. This morning I discovered a belly hair on my own belly that measures 9.5 cm (3 3/4 inches). Isn’t that incredible? As I was measuring it, it detached from it’s home … [Read more…]
This morning at Beerseba, I was just about to head home after teaching some classes when one of our students was hit by a truck. Hugo, the little guy at the bottom right hand of this photo, was playing with his friends where he wasn’t supposed to be playing and an older man in a … [Read more…]
Mom and I eating at a really nice restaurant on June 2, ’06 in Santa Catarina de Palopó Severe headache in the afternoon followed by violent vomiting in the evening followed by dire diarrhea the next morning. I can definitely attribute the last two symptoms to the meal I’m naïvely enjoying in this photo. I … [Read more…]
Yesterday, I drove a little seven-year-old girl home from the hospital where she will probably die. I was in the Cobán hospital with a short-term mission team from Canmore, AB. We take all the teams there to pray for the kids and give gifts to the new mothers in the maternity ward. When a few … [Read more…]
Saturday – I accidentally delete a scene from the film I’m working on. This just means redoing about 4 hours of work. Sunday – I have a headache. Then while we’re at church in the evening, our house is robbed of more than $8000 worth of stuff. Monday – I’m in a daze because I … [Read more…]
[Apparently Canadians talk about the weather more than any other nationality] I shiver. This is Guatemala, not a lake in north Ontario in late November. Yet, I shiver. Poor little Blaise has a cold, so his nose whistles when he sleeps. His voice reveals he has a cold too. The past two nights Amber has … [Read more…]
2:50 AM is our rendez-vous time outside my house. I meet up with Walter my neighbour, Oscar (a fellow teacher) and Eddie, Heber, and Johnny (students at Beerseba) in the light rain. Les picks us up in his Kia van and we hook up with Estuardo and Erwin and their big cattle truck. Eric misses … [Read more…]
Hey, I’m 29 now. I had a weird lumpy thing in my throat beginning the night of my party and it stuck in there for 2 more days. It’s gone now. Amber got a bunch of friends over here for the party, in total about 20 guests. Lots of games and a terrific playlist of … [Read more…]
I ran with my iPod in my hand and the memory of Stephanie in my head. The course began at the Pioneer Centre in Spruce Grove. A woman shared at the departure ribbon about how her friend just passed away on Friday of Cancer and how her husband currently has it. It was touching to … [Read more…]
Jenny, our grade 1 teacher, lost her son Simon to depression on Sunday. His funeral was this evening, standing room only. After hearing people talk about him for an hour, I really wish he was one of my friends. His idealism and art would have uplifted me. And it breaks my heart to see parents … [Read more…]