No matter how I strained my ears in the courtroom, I couldn’t understand what was being said. The air con was blasting and the lighting seemed bureaucratic and unfriendly. The judge was an older Australian donning a tired judge’s wig. Now and again a word would stand itself up and swirl in my brain as […]
I started writing this Monday afternoon. It’s been a very long time since I made a concerted effort to write, and I was proud of myself. Despite the typically unbearable heat of October I was winning. Ray was spending a much anticipated afternoon at the office. Willa was asleep. Cricket was asleep. Two children peaceful […]
Brian pulled the schoolroom desk into the girls’ room and set up the computer as I tucked blankets around weak girls and filled water bottles. It didn’t take much tucking or settling. Both girls were feverish and lethargic, the misery of sickness already well established. Even so, it didn’t dampen their excitement that the evening […]
Grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins. Their familiar faces all staring down at us from their new perch on the wall in our dining area. It’s one of the last pieces to fall into place making our home actually feel like our home. Some of the pictures are old, some are new, but the faces are all […]
Rocky and impossible mountains, cut by water cascading down sharp rocks. Flying above, the only thing in view is endless jungle with a rare glimpse of thatched roof huts, clustered together in lonely huddles. To say villages in Papua New Guinea are remote is an understatement. They are becoming connected to the rest of the […]
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