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Friday, February 29, 2008

Moonshine and snow

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Last weekend was one of those extraordinary nights, a clear cold winter night where the moon was a three days past “full.” It had snowed a c...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Moonshine

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I love The Moon, yet all to often I fail to notice how extraordinary she can be. She is a regular in our night sky for about 25 days out of ...
Friday, February 08, 2008

Sunshine

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I was not quite sure what to write about today until I was sitting in my living room with my laptop doing some journaling. Our house is posi...
Thursday, February 07, 2008

The ordinary

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I wrote the other day about enjoying the ordinary. Ordinary activities have taken on new meaning to me over the last few months since return...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008

I'm back

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I have to be honest. I have been struggling with resuming writing in this blog for a few weeks ago. I have been sitting here for about 40 mi...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Moving on

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I have been posting about Malawi and related issues for the better part of a year now. Over the last six months, I have been posting about o...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Nearing the end of writing about Malawi

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I have known for a while that I am nearing the end of my blog entries based on my trip to Malawi last summer. At least this may be the end o...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Education in Malawi

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One of the things that interested me while I was in Malawi was the difference in the education system as compared with America. Primary scho...
Monday, November 12, 2007

People I met, part II

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The other day I wrote about some of the people I met in passing while I was in Malawi. There were many people that we met who worked with Ma...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

People I met

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I have been reviewing my blog entries over the last couple of days. I don’t think that I have done justice to all the wonderful people that ...
Friday, November 02, 2007

When people die

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I was going through the journal I kept while I was in Malawi looking for my notes on the education system in Malawi, when I ran across somet...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Fish, part 3

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One of the highlights of our trip was our two–hour boat ride on the Shire River. We got a chance to see fisherman first hand. Two or three m...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Fish, part 2

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On our first full day in Malawi, we went to open a open air market in Malawi. And you guessed, there were lots and lots of fish for sale, sa...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Fish, part 1

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We are big fish eaters, eating fish a couple of times a week. Like many other Americans, I go to the store to by my fish. In some cases, the...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Goats

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I think that I already written about the large number of goats that we saw during our travels in Malawi. If I recall I wrote about the large...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Food Security in Malawi

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On the morning of our last day in Blantyre (June 25), we had our second meeting of our trip with staff members of the Churches Action for Re...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Resuming blogging

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If you have been following my blog, then you know that I have not posted anything in over two weeks. I spent some of this time starting to w...
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Monday, October 01, 2007

Power Blackouts and Malaria Medication

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By our third or fourth day in Malawi, we experienced our first power blackout. This one lasted about one hour. By the end of our first week,...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Camaraderie in Malawi

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There were eleven of us in the transformational journey group that traveled to Malawi. We ranged in age from 22to the mid-60s with eight wom...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Tires

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On our second full day in Malawi Luzu had to get the spare tire on the van fixed. This was the day we drove from Lilongwe to Senga Bay with ...