I didn’t write a single word while I was in Kenya. I snapped over 3000 photos and videos. I updated Twitter and Facebook and Path in the morning or the evening when I had access. But I did not sit down to write like this at all during my 21 days outside of the United […]
Of Netbooks, Kenya And Perspective
“Can I help you?” “Yes,” I said. “I’d like to buy this Gateway netbook” If you know me, that’s not a sentence I thought would ever come out of my mouth. But that’s the whole point of this story. I wasn’t buying it for me, I was buying it for Mary, the first of the […]
I’m Going To Kenya To Meet My Daughters
“I’ve found two more daughters.” Those are the words I was greeted with when my wife, Rocky, returned from what we thought was going to be her “once in a lifetime” volunteer trip to Kenya with Global Volunteer Network in October of 2007. She had fallen in love with the girls at St. Monica’s Children’s […]
I Have A Brand New Son
I have a brand new son living in my house.
He looks exactly like the 7-year-old who was living here before. He wears the same clothes, and he sleeps in the same bed. But he’s not the same child.
The Glider
The glider on my Mammaw’s porch was not a favorite piece for anyone but her, except when it rained. Then it was my favorite piece.
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