I like taking walks.   I like taking walks for several reasons.  Primarily, it gives me time to stare pensively into open air while listening to enjoyable selections from Jon Foreman and The Michael Gungor Band.  Secondarily, it gives my…

  There’s been a lot on my mind-grapes as of late. Any time I go through an experience such as this one, with both a start date and an end date, I realize just how brief life can seem. God has repeatedly…

 In Tororo, there is an orphanage of sorts called Smile Africa. Its an orphanage of sorts because there’s really not much structure to speak of. There’s a freestanding kitchen where the volunteers cook 2 meals a day for the children who…

Just random journaling on vacation…   Woke up at 3 AM to take a bus out of the Maasai Mara land to Nairobi by way of Narok.  Got to Milimani Backpackers around 11 AM, chilled for awhile, and am now…

I’m leaving Mbita tomorrow. This wasn’t planned, or expected, but its what’s best.  Our team got the call this last weekend to confirm our travel back to Uganda, to True Vine Ministries, a wonderful place in Tororo with connections to…

Yep, it’s where I live. Every morning as I hear my alarm go off (or actually Tara’s alarm, then Cherise’s alarm, then Jenessa’s alarm, then mine) I jump back into the consciousness of the African experience.  Some mornings I lay…

Last night, I had a dream.   In this dream, I was caring for a baby girl, probably about 18 months old.  She was really cute, she had red hair that was in a little ponytail on top of her…

Plastic bottles, discarded plastic bags, torn shirts and pieces of shoes, batteries, broken ceramic mugs, fishing nets, shattered beer bottles and countless other remnants of third world life…   As far as the eye could see.   We have come…

Its the natural progression of how things go sometimes here in Africa. Living encompasses all sorts of decisions and choices that normal young adults are never faced with in America. We like to reference Reese’s mom Monica and sing a little…