A pile of store-bought fried dough claiming to be doughnuts sat on the counter; they lied. A pitcher of sugary red Tang and several bottles of neon orange Fanta brightened the inside of the fridge with their cheery unnaturalness. Tea, sugar, milk, and a fresh pot of coffee perched expectantly in their various dedicated spots […]
The headlights of our truck cut through the morning dark, occasionally giving me a glimpse of families trekking along the side of the road heading to the football field. All of them were clad in the garishly yellow, yet highly coveted Trukai Fun Run shirts. I was on my way to collect two friends and […]
Don’t correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m fairly certain I have God’s relationship to man completely worked out. After lovingly knitting us together in the womb, counting the hairs on our head at any and every point of our existence, having his heart broken at our choice to live apart from him in sin, […]
“I was scared and lost heart, but when I collected my head I realized I wasn’t dead.” My life has been full of complaints lately. I injured something that wraps around my ribcage making it nigh impossible to do anything without painful grunting. Complain. I incurred the injury by ineffectively wrestling Jett to both stay […]
For three weeks now I’ve been experiencing one of the hazards of being a stay-at-home mom: terrible neighbors. One would think in a country like PNG there would be no chance of having neighbors with a garage band that has zero self-awareness. One would think. Sadly, our neighbors do have a garage band made up […]
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