Traditional clothing seen on the Rai Coast It’s interesting to me how the western world feels the need to put clothes on naked village children. We have this mindset that all children need to wear clothes because that’s obviously appropriate; naked children running around in the world makes us feel sad and is kind of […]
Before we arrived home for our first furlough earlier this year, I knew the Achilles’ heel I would face in the US. I started praying about it well before landing in San Francisco, but it’s hard. I’m a nester and I strongly desire a house in which I can nest. The arrival of our bundle […]
It was setting up to be another brutally hot day when we woke up in our small bamboo house. I chose to stay on top of my sleeping bag where I was able to watch the geckos play in the roof while listening to the sounds of a Papua New Guinean village waking up. I […]
Okay, last week I started going through the top six unexpected things that have happened to me since PNG became my home. Here is the conclusion: 3. I never thought I would regularly cook from scratch. You can ask my college roommates what kind of a talented cook I was back in the day and […]
When we travel around I get lots of questions about what life is like in PNG. In response, I usually give cursory descriptions of food or housing that probably don’t communicate a whole lot to the asker. I’m not trying to be rude, but I assume people are just being polite by feigning interest; I […]
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