Most of you already have a t shirt or two, so...I need your help selling the rest! Sell them to your friends! Your neighbours! Your co workers! Give them to people as wedding gifts!No, seriously.We have a few t shirts [...]
Over the past few years, as we've been developing our plans and raising the money to finish our home, Susan and I have worked to establish a relationship with the people who live in the slum near our apartment. We [...]
A few of you have asked me what I do every day.This morning we had visitors- Wilson's cousins- who I enjoyed meeting a lot! I ended up picking their brains about second hand children's clothing, sustainable farming, bio-gas, and solar [...]
Susan and I have been researching the prices of everything we need for our children's home- from $150 bunk beds to ten-cent cloves of garlic. we are working on a house budget, a weekly menu, a monthly budget... we have [...]
...but here's a favourite from this past week.
Dim sunlight filters in through the window and spills onto the small table in the center of the room, illuminating cups of hot, sweet tea, a plate of soft, white bread and a basin of cool water. The heels of [...]
(part two is here.) I left off with the entrance of a ‘young college student who thinks she knows everything’. Heh. You see, I was studying child development. I was an experton all things kid-related, and I knew what was [...]
first of all, a side note- I am moving out of my apartment at the end of April and staying with friends until I leave, to save money, and OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS, who let me accumulate this much [...]
over the past ten years I've been to Kenya eleven different times for a total of 24 wonderful months on that beautiful red soil.that's a lot of frequent flier miles, in case you were wondering.I've always dreamed of living there- [...]