My Bry turns 18 today.

    We ate chocolate cake with a thin layer of American icing on top. We only have two containers of instant icing so we’re spreading them out to last. Tayte baked the cake. Bri

I usually kid when we transition back to Africa or back to America that we are heading to the dark side of the moon . . . that place where Houston loses contact with its wee-shaped little ball of stee

Kat turned 6 years old a little bit ago . . . and she did it on a very PINK day.

                                                           The girl’s got it goin’ on . . . .

    

          

Across the street, our Latina neighbors hung an American flag in their front doorway. Proudly. They shot off humong-O fireworks into the sky. Just 2 days earlier, the sister of the sister-in-law of th

 

 

We’re heading back to Kenya soon. God has been BIG in the things He’s done and the doors He’s opened while we’ve been here in the States. We head back with a lot of plans and backing to get some stu

I rescued a turtle last week. And I rescued a butterfly yesterday. But the picture of the butterfly on the back of the turtle is not the same butterfly that I rescued. Or it could be. I just don’t kno

I sure love my Tayte. Her full name is Tatjana Tayte Rian Jamison. Tatjana - because I saw the name on the Olympics once and loved it. Tayte hates it. It means “a Russian Saint.” She doesn’t hate that

Our church is joining other churches in the metroplex in this Million Acts of Kindness deal. Which is cool. I’m all for kindness. You are supposed to do something kind for someone and then hand them a

It got stolen three months ago. And I have a big mouth [I admit.] Or at least I write alot. I blog alot. But I don’t always - or even usually - write or blog about things that are so very tender. The

I went to the Mall tonite. With a friend named Kathy. She’s my age but she doesn’t look it. She looks like she’s 28. Which is cool.

 

I hadn’t been shopping at a Mall in probably close to forever. I’m

My parents came down for a quick visit this week. I hadn’t seen them in a year. They looked great. They were very busy over the past year - -  caring for my sister with her cancer and her husband away

I took Tayte to the salon today. Bry opted for the home treatment. Bry regrets having opted for the home treatment. Good thing her hair grows quickly. sorry, Bry.

 

    Tayte got a make-over from Kenya

I got into my skinny jeans!

  

It was a dark and windy night.

    Nope, that’s not an opening line to an amateur novel.

    It’s just an opening line to an amateur blog.

      Yet it’s true, nonetheless. I stand by my words. Who

The news we hoped we would never hear reached us today.

   The killings in Kenya have spread to Kitale - the town where we stay.

    

I don’t have the exact number, but from what I can gather from go

Magic filled the room. Adrenaline rushed. People stood in line.

I could barely

        contain my own enthusiasm.

  

 I had worked so very hard for this moment. I had spent hours upon hours enslaved

Katerisha is officially an American now. Today, she got on the Big Yellow School Bus. Fun. We waited outside for about 15 minutes for the bus to arrive since I was so excited for her to go on it that

“What are you looking forward to the most in returning to the States?”

   Just before flying out of Nairobi, we got to meet up with a fellow expat blogger & his family for dinner at the Java House. M

It’s our 10th day back in America . . . and I would just like to say that I am SO amazingly clean. My fingernails are clean. My feet are clean. My face is clean. My knees are clean. I’m so amazingly c

fOr now.

Cultures vary. Go from tribe to tribe and you get different takes on tons of things. But one thing that has remained a constant during our time in Kenya is the enormous commonality of men holding hand

“I was sitting with my wife when I got your message,” said Musa. “We were just talking about how our daughter, Chepkemsi, was going to feel when she found out that the 3 other girls were able to go to

 

I awoke to the song of the young Ibis. Other birds joined in. After a quick shower, I sat by the window for a bit just to watch them splash and play in the birdbath. I can see my neighbors already bu

While the Ark Bible School has only been one part of our ministry over the last few years, we’ve always believed it to be a significant part of where God is working.

      When Brian first spoke on th

I did it. I unlocked the secret. It took awhile, but better late than never.

Millions of people got baskets for Easter. Even Spiderman’s bride-2-be, Kirsten Dunkst, was snapped by the paparazzi out shopping for hers. Baskets & Easter: they go together. But why stop there? Why

“Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”  [jn 20:27]

What more is there to say?

 

 

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I went to the ballet in Aspen, Colorado. Yep. Truth’s out. No more secrets. An email correspondence this week w/someone who used to live in Aspen reminded me of going to the ballet and some thoughts t

Meet Amiee. Aimee is pictured above in both photos. Her dad died last year due to AIDS, leaving her family penniless. Her mom tests positive and, as a result, is unable to find work. Yet Aimee went to

Dear sweet Sig,

    Here are the beauties --- dressed in top fashion (your Christmas gift to them) - as you can see. They dropped in today to bring me their score reports for Term 1 at Legacy.

      

Tayte found around 14 baby chameleons in front of our kitchen windows. Apparently, one big fat mama let loose out there. at first, Tayte found one or two. But the numbers just kept growing as she, Tai

Kenya is tough. No doubt. Just a few days ago I was sitting in a hospital w/a friend waiting on a doctor because the other doctor got called into the next room to care for victims of a road accident.

 

 

 

I lied.

 

Now for those of you who think a person loses their salvation when they sin,

                                                                   you may want to pray for me because I reall

Classes have let out here for Term One in most schools. Legacy is closed. Tait’s going back home to Maasailand and her manyatta. Katty’s school had a special “dress-up” day today to close out their te

Smush. Gush. Emotions.

I’m putting up random pictures today. Different stuff mostly from our travels these past 2 weeks. Yes, we went to a country where they have a McDonalds! Due to the nature of th

We jammed the car w/ 9 adults and an adorable baby named Robert yesterday on our way to town. 2 of the adults were Brian & Joseph. Joseph is our Maasai friend (the brother of Tait - the 14 yr. old gir

It came on an email from another expat in Kenya. After a fortnight out of the country, we’re back. And re-entry was both delightful and discouraging. As it seems most days are here. I love Kenyans. I

We’re off on another one of those adventures. It will be a week or more before we make it back to the world of

  “internet” and computers. Probably more.

      In the mean time, I’m putting up some p

Yesterday a hail storm hit our part of Kenya. True. Yes, we’re near the equator but there must have been some cold air somewhere up in the sky because the ground was littered with the stuff. The wind

My pocket got picked. In Nairobi. As I stood in line checking out at a HUGE supermarket while the kids watched a movie at the cinema nearby, a (roughly) 16-year-old clean-cut, athletic-looking dude-gu