Smoky clothes

We’re directly in between the rainy and dry seasons. Some days… like today… we get a much appreciated storm bringing cold (to us) temps. As quick as we can the tea kettle is on, we’re donning our cold weather clothes, and the books are out. Other days… like yesterday… are so very bright and hot. […]

Laughter in the doodles

Homeschool can be confronting. Deeply and jaggedly confronting. When you get married you start to see a bit more clearly all the aspects of your personality that are, well, less than stellar. You work on the rough edges through the flint on flint sharpening that occurs when two humans find themselves in close proximity to […]

Our Starbaby becomes our Starchild

Gemma turned three this week!! She’s still so sparkling, judgemental, suspicious, loving, stern, silly, and full of so many other contradictions. She knows all her letters, loves drawing COVID germs (they’re just her natural style), and will tell you over and again what chapter she’s reading in a picture book. If she’s learned anything from […]

Mask Up

There are more and more articles in world news about how PNG is finally (and unfortunately) facing COVID. The lived reality of COVID in PNG looks a bit chaotic and unruly. The hospitals in Port Moresby are really struggling with most of their staff out sick while huge portions of the population believe the whole […]