Today is the day we head back to Uganda. It is hard to believe that it was nearly one year ago that we left Uganda, after living there for six months. The people and the places are still fresh in my mind. But much has happened in that time. We have changed and I suspect […]
I can hear the cheers through my kitchen window this morning as I wash the breakfast dishes. It is New Student Orientation week at Pepperdine and the new freshmen are arriving. Every time a car drives up the dorm road, the NSO counselors cheer so loudly that I can hear it from my house, which […]
I woke up Saturday morning to a surprise! Not a good surprise, but a bad one. I had planned on sleeping in on Saturday morning because our kids had been up late in our apartment with Allison, Annie, Abby Claire, and A.J. Brown, watching Harry Potter movies and baking cookies. Friday night was the last […]
Going on safari is a must if you come to Africa. Last weekend we got to see the best wildlife in Uganda at Murchison Falls National Park. The photos do not do these animals justice, but we took hundreds of them. The Brown family of Midland, Texas shared our adventure. They are here in Uganda, adopting […]
First of all, let me say that we are all okay, but there was a fire at our hotel on Sunday night. Earlier that evening, we had eaten dinner at the mall food court with about six other families who are adopting in Uganda. The Brown family of Midland, Texas was part of that gathering. See […]
After reading my post about my cooking disaster with g-nuts, many of you offered encouragement and said it would take time for me to learn how to cook beans and other Ugandan foods. So I thought you would be pleased to know that I successfully cooked beans and rice for dinner on Friday night for […]
If you have seen my refrigerator at home, you know I like collecting magnets as souvenirs when I travel. You might have seen my magnet of the Eiffel Tower from Paris, Big Ben from London, the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, the dolphins from Cancun, La Sagrada Familia from Barcelona, the Colosseum from Rome, […]
Sometimes a song expresses what you are feeling better than you could. Check out these song lyrics from “I Refuse” by Josh Wilson and you will get an idea of what I am feeling. Sometimes I I just want to close my eyes And act like everyone’s alright When I know they’re not This world needs […]
“Jina lako?” “What is your name?” I repeated this Swahili phrase 33 times today as I met the boys and girls in the Ihungu Remand Home in Masindi (about 3 – 4 hours from Kampala, depending on traffic). Because these teen prisoners have come from different parts of Uganda and speak a variety of languages, Swahili […]
Wise King Solomon said, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.” (Ecclesiastes 3: 1 – 2). We are approaching the half-way point of our time in Uganda. When […]
