If you ever get the chance to know a Welsh person, I strongly suggest you take it. I have been blessed with a number of good Welsh friends whom I met while working in England. The Welsh have a reputation for statements that are simultaneously hilarious, contradictory, and absolutely...

Karen Blixen’s book “Out of Africa” begins with: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills”. This mountain range overlooks the Great Rift Valley and dominates the view west from Nairobi on any clear day. About 100 miles to the south is Mt....

Hope is pretty hard to muster. In a world like ours, it doesn’t really seem like there should be much of it. Things seem to be getting worse everyday; people here in America are losing their jobs, houses, you name it. In Kenya, people are living in shacks, living on a dollar a day,...

It is now day 8 of our Kenyan adventure and we are celebrating thanksgiving in Kenya today! The more I travel overseas, the more I am truly thankful in just how blessed we are in America when compared to the rest of the world…especially the third world. We are blessed to live in a...

When I first read this scripture, I closed my Bible, shook my head and wondered what I was supposed to do with it. What exactly was I supposed to write about? What could I say? After much prayer, meditation and lots of FREAKING OUT, He showed me exactly what the verse meant and what I had to...