Monthly Archives: January 2013

He struggles up a handmade ladder carrying a five gallon bucket of cement on his shoulder. Two stories into the air he climbs and then deposits it on top of the platform they’ve knocked together. It seems as if they … Continue reading →

There are days when trying to finish one job just lead to three more.  When you decide to tackle the mounds of laundry and find there’s no more soap (so you dig out the makings for laundry soap) and while … Continue reading →

At this point in the construction process that’s taking place in our yard it’s impossible to access our front door from the road. We quite literally have a moat around the front of our house. When we walked out to … Continue reading →

Last night my engineer-studying son called. It was late for us, after 9, and since things here start moving shortly after 5 am I had to make myself walk down the hall and pick up the phone just to see … Continue reading →

So when you already live in a country other than the one stamped on your passport, when you are trying and failing to learn another tongue, when living this way costs heart-hurt for those family and friends doing life somewhere … Continue reading →

They saw us out walking and decided to follow. It was early on a Sunday and perhaps they had nothing to do. A gringo family might have seemed an easy target, or at least a hope of something free. They fell into … Continue reading →

So we’ve been back here in Honduras for a week today. And it’s the middle of January already so everyone is over talking about how the Mayan calendar didn’t lead to the end of the world-I’m not even sure how … Continue reading →

A friend asked me after our first day back if it still feels “surreal” and I think that’s exactly what I’ve been feeling. Trying to cram almost two years’ worth of life into two and half weeks back in your … Continue reading →