Category Archives: Family & Friends

Kids start helping out with adult sized tasks at an early age here, it’s just part of family life.  When I was a kid, I remember helping with the housecleaning and various chores, but my responsibilities were more to teach …

Bobby and Timothe Turk brought 3 friends home with them for their 10 day school break.  Nuri, Ben, and Caleb rode over bumpy roads for untold hours, squished into interesting seating arrangements, putting up with heat and dust and …

If  the sun is shining at 5pm, you most likely will find Roy playing sports with his friends.  If the clay/dirt basketball and volleyball courts are a bit on the wet side, you’ll find him weeding them, sometimes with his …

I used to work in the operating room of a busy downtown university teaching hospital.  While working on patients who had been in accidents, I came to appreciate motorcycle helmets.  We called them brain buckets, and there’s definitely a reason …

One of the perks of being married to a tropical fruit enthusiast is getting to eat strange and wonderful things.  This is the peach palm; when boiled and salted it is a treat, tasting something like corn and having the …

Oh what delight!  To Skype (video chat on our computer) with our kids and grandkids, in Indiana and South Africa – WOW!  This Gramdee’s heart is full.  We heard all of their voices, and saw most of their faces – …