Before we arrived home for our first furlough earlier this year, I knew the Achilles’ heel I would face in the US. I started praying about it well before landing in San Francisco, but it’s hard. I’m a nester and I strongly desire a house in which I can nest. The arrival of our bundle […]
It was setting up to be another brutally hot day when we woke up in our small bamboo house. I chose to stay on top of my sleeping bag where I was able to watch the geckos play in the roof while listening to the sounds of a Papua New Guinean village waking up. I […]
Okay, last week I started going through the top six unexpected things that have happened to me since PNG became my home. Here is the conclusion: 3. I never thought I would regularly cook from scratch. You can ask my college roommates what kind of a talented cook I was back in the day and […]
When we travel around I get lots of questions about what life is like in PNG. In response, I usually give cursory descriptions of food or housing that probably don’t communicate a whole lot to the asker. I’m not trying to be rude, but I assume people are just being polite by feigning interest; I […]
The air was hot and sticky, just like I was used to it being during summers in the Piedmont of North Carolina. I remember being completely worn out and just a little bit terrified as I walked from the plane to the terminal. I had flown from Los Angeles to New Zealand to Australia, finally […]
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