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Day 22: Sunday, May 3, 2020 “Normal” is a word we hear in conjunction with our current situation: When will things return to normal? What will be the new normal? Will anything ever seem normal again? Yesterday, I began to rehearse my “regular” normal activities on the weekend and what I am now doing. IContinue reading “Normal: Then, Now, Later”

Day 20: Friday, May 1, 2020 What is your favorite resurrection story? The small groups in our church were asked to consider the question this week as we discussed our pastor’s Easter season sermons, all of them, so far, about one of the resurrection stories in the four gospels. We’ve all chuckled as he saysContinue reading “On the Road to Emmaus”

Day 18: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Hydroxychloroquine, the drug that has been much featured in the news during this coronavirus pandemic, is also a very “old” medication used as an antimalarial medicine. It can treat malaria or be used to prevent it. By the time I was getting ready to go to Burkina Faso, WestContinue reading “Malaria Meds”

Tonight, a light-hearted post about another pair of earrings Jim and I had just debarked from our cruise ship about 9 in the morning and we didn’t need to leave for the airport until 2 p.m. What to do in the intervening time? “Cruise” Seattle. First stop was Pike Place and its environs in searchContinue reading “Post Alaskan Cruise Earrings”

Day 16: Monday, April 27, 2020 What in the world is going on? I hear the news and think to myself, “How much worse can this get?” We hear of all kinds of non-profits and charities and even individual restaurateurs providing food for all kinds of needy people, juxtaposed against reports of long food bankContinue reading “Hope”

Note: When I first assigned the prompt “my bus ride” to my class,this was the topic that I knew I must write. Yesterday’s writing on the bus ride in Africa was a mere diversion or delay in setting this incident into words. I was riding east. The darkness was quickly surrounding the bus as itContinue reading “Another Bus Ride”

Tonight I offer this reminiscence that fit the prompt I gave to my writing group for this week’s class. Before we ever left the United States in 2010, we knew that part of our Africa trip would involve a bus. “We” were a group of three professors and eight students who were traveling to BurkinaContinue reading “The Bus Trip”

Day 11: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 We have the right, as a nation, to be distressed. The CDC director, along with many other experts, is predicting that the COVID-19 virus, which isn’t even under control yet, will be worse when the second wave hits this winter. It would be nice to get through the firstContinue reading “Little Blessings”

Day 10: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 I love to read print. Of course, what I mean by that is that I love print on a piece of paper, not print on a screen. And because I love print, I love to read newspapers. Every day, for years and years, probably in every town and cityContinue reading “The Printed Word”

Day 8: Sunday, April 19, 2020 “No, it is not at all difficult. We will take the ski lift up two-thirds of the way, so there’s very little climbing involved. You just must see this most beautiful of our mountains, “ exclaimed Jarko as we began our journey from Kosice to Poprad. We had justContinue reading “Peaks”