We know your secret identity.
You go around disguised as doctors and teachers and salespersons and stay at home moms, but we know who you really are.
You are the people who feed almost 20,000 students a lunch every school day.
You are the people who have built 17 solar computer centers with another 3 scheduled for completion in 2010.
You are the people who have heard the cry of the children of Africa, and you have not made peace with it.
We are so...
It had been a long hard year, and we hadn’t seen JT as a family for 12 months. So we were thrilled that he was able to come for Christmas, and we arranged to go to the coast the morning he arrived for five days on the beach. JT was a typically exhausted college kid just done with finals, so we had a nice relaxing time in Mombasa.
We were flying back to Nairobi on the 22nd, and I started to...
I got up early on Christmas Eve to exercise, and as usual, the dog wanted to go with me. As I stepped out of the door, I saw a large male baboon 5 feet away. Our loyal but not terribly bright dog started chasing the baboon, and after a few moments of the dog chasing the baboon, the baboon had the thought `I am much stronger than this dog’ and swirled and began chasing the dog. As I watched the...
Continue ReadingIt has been a while since I wrote and there has been lots to write about. We’ve had a very full and wonderful couple of weeks with a liberal sprinkling of Kenyan moments.
There was our wonderful and unique trip to the Indian Ocean. It was a great trip, with beautiful scenery: white, white sandy beaches, turquoise waters, rainbow colored fish, restful palms swaying in the breezes and even a view of Mt. Kilimanjaro from the road, wonderful family times, alternating...
