My authentic-to-the-core husband hates praying aloud in groups so much that he typically won’t do it. Oh, he’ll sit there quietly and have epic conversations with God in his head, but you’ll seldom find him piping up and popcorn-praying-it. He thinks his talks with God are personal, and he’d just prefer to keep them that [...]
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So the guy comes to the table, and we order (in Thai) what we think is noodle soup. He rattles off a list of things we can’t understand and asks us if we want those added to the soup, too. We are thinking carrots, little bit of chicken, maybe some garlic or ginger. This is [...]
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Can’t read Thai, like me? No problem. At this coffee shop near our house, you can always just order the Rib. Eyes. Seen anything funny this weekend?
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We had an incident this week. It included my husband riding his motorbike, dressed all-snazzy-professional for a meeting, and being nearly-attacked by two psycho street dogs. The details are perhaps not as important as the results, which were: road-rashed knees, jarred and, thus, very stiff, back, scraped scooter, and holes in his best suit pants. [...]
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Happy Weekend, Friends. Here’s a super-short clip of the scenery we drive past daily near our house in Doi Saket. It’s a far cry from Pikes Peak in Colorado, but gorgeous, nonetheless. {And don’t worry, Mom, I do wear a helmet when driving the scooter. Promise.} Are you thankful to be seeing anything new this [...]
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So, on a lighter note from my previous Help-Me-I-Might-Explode-Post, here’s a true account from my week . . . Just a few days ago, I was crammed into a sawng-taw on my way home from Thai Language Class. It was afternoon-tropics-hot. It was stop-and-go-after-school-traffic. It was too-many-cars-and-motorbikes-fumes. It was five-people-too-many-people-in-the-elevator. And I was practicing my [...]
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“A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think tribute is paid in secret, in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will play out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for [...]
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We have been assaulted with the different in this exotic place we now call home. From the way we shop for food (every other day at open air markets) to the way we get around town (on the left side of the road, on the back of a motorcycle or in a truck-turned-taxi), daily life [...]
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We started Thai Language School! I write that with an exclamation point because it was a last-minute opportunity that we are so thrilled about taking. Matt and I both are learning conversational Thai for the next six weeks, five days a week, two hours a day. Matt goes to the morning class, and I go [...]
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We got to watch the girls fish last week. In the process of draining a pond that was breeding mosquitoes, the water became low enough to make fishing village-style easier. About 40 girls, along with the five staff of nationals, jumped into the water for about an hour catching fish with buckets and their hands. [...]
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I was feeling trapped today, unable to drive and “stuck” here at the house while Matt visited an outlying village, And then I heard over lunch about Burmese families that have been held in refugee camps for over five years along the Thai-Myanmar border. They can’t return to their own country, because of the danger from [...]
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My family is living overseas in Thailand, where my husband is directing a Christian Humanitarian Foundation. This blog is the honest recording of our journey– squatty potties and all. 
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Mentoring Young Adults, Hosting Teams, Educating about Human Trafficking.
