I participated in the One Day party on Instagram again this year, hosted by Laura of HollyWood HouseWife. Every year that I do this I think to myself I will follow up by making it into a blog post so that readers who aren’t on IG can see what goes […]
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The Blessing of Water
After rainy season comes dry season. Gradually the rain peters out, and suddenly you realize that it’s been a few weeks since it has rained at all, and then a few months. It may rain once or twice during this season, what we call winter, because it’s cool, but not […]
Read MoreAdaptations
If you want to adapt quickly to a subtropical climate I highly recommend showing up 7 months pregnant at the height of the hot season and living without air conditioning. Half an hour after Dek was born, just after I got out of the shower, I felt something I had […]
Read MoreOf Beggars and Boys, and Becoming Men
Sunday night on our way home from the market the clutch went on our car. We pulled over at the first place that seemed like it might have some of the things we needed for a repair. We hadn’t eaten dinner yet, and it was getting late, and the car […]
Read MorePHFR – The missing updates
It’s been ages since I did a PFHR post, and I don’t know why because I’ve been taking a ton of pictures. So these pictures aren’t necessarily from this past week. I have a lot of archives to catch up on from the past few months. Pretty I’m so glad […]
Read MoreScorpion Eaters
A little while ago we were sitting around a little fire outside in our yard, because it was family night and the kids had asked for a fire. I was just starting a story when Aaer ron yelled, “Everyone get back!” We live in the land of poisonous vipers, and […]
Read MoreWhat I See
We decide to eat lunch in a sit down restaurant near the border the day we renew our visas, rather than a street stall, mostly because we also need a bathroom. Six ladies and one girl, in coordinating tribal shirts, seat us and bring our dishes, ice, drinks, menus, etc. […]
Read MoreImages
There are things I want to show you, but don’t have any photos of. This is partly because they happen too fast for me to pull out my phone and snap them, also because my phone can’t catch these things adequately and the big camera is kind of a pain […]
Read MoreThe Trip to Pai
I wish I could take you with me on a drive through the mountains to Pai. I want you to see the way the road suddenly changes from flat city streets to winding mountain highway through the jungle. You can see rows of mountains up ahead, blue in the mist. […]
Read MoreWe Moved!
More than six hours of driving later, through the rain in the darkening afternoon through the mountains on a pothole filled highway, in a car with no power steering or power anything, we made it to our new house. new house balcony, looking in and looking out We still don’t […]
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