by Ann | Dec 22, 2016 | At Home, Feature Holidays, Holidays, Real Life, The World, USA
For the past several years, we’ve decorated what we like to call our Christmas travel tree. [We wrote a blog post all about it that you can read HERE.] We had lots of help decorating for Christmas this year. Our daughter, Meghan, was home and we invited a couple...
by Steve | Aug 2, 2016 | The World
Some friends of ours, Paul and Micaela, sent us this postcard from Istanbul! Paul is a teacher in the same district where I work as a principal. Micaela is an athletic trainer at a local college and has worked some with Ann on weight training. We’ve enjoyed...
by Ann | Jun 18, 2016 | Feature Destinations, Feature The World, The World, Where we've been
We arrived in London, England, as scheduled and had a lovely drive (thanks Chirton Grange) through the countryside to our first stop — Stonehenge. It was amazing to see this ancient phenomena in person and learn even more about its history and mystique. We spent...
by Ann | Jun 10, 2016 | The World
Six years ago this week, a 7-month old baby boy was abandoned at a hospital in Mbarara in western Uganda, Africa. He was malnourished and weighed just 7.6 pounds, a size typical for most newborns in America. His then teenage mother was unable to care for him and he...
by Steve | Jun 5, 2016 | The World
A former student of mine, James Donaldson, sent this postcard from Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. I first knew James when I taught Spanish in Greenville, Mississippi, right after college. He, and his now wife, Kira, played on the high school soccer team I coached there. I...
by Ann | Mar 18, 2016 | The World
Six years ago, we had the privilege of meeting a delightful young lady from Germany who was living with a family we know in our hometown of Crete, Nebraska. She was here to study at the high school as a foreign exchange student. At the time, she was in school with our...