Prairie Bluestem

Faulty weather predictions for Winter 2010 Remember the long-range forecasts last fall? This winter in the Midwest was supposed to be warm...

A letter home from West Berlin I wrote this letter 6 days before our son Isaac was born. Keely was 3 years old. We were living in militar...

We watched The Wall come down. Dennis and I lived in West Berlin from 1988-1991. Dennis was working as a manager for the Army-Air Force Ex...

Landmark in Santa Cruz, Bolivia This church of unusual hue was a landmark in our neighborhood when we lived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (1980-198...

Glimpses of their lives When Dennis and I taught school in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in the early 1980s, we were quite surprised to see Mennonites...

Palms and processionals Palm Sunday was celebrated this morning across the Christian world. In my church, the little crosses above were...

Many of America's "poor" are rich by world standards. This is a true story about an experience I have never forgotten. W...

The first two weeks of teaching in Santa Cruz, Bolivia In mid-July of 1980, Dennis and I arrived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia . We had accepted a...

Riding through dark streets in a collectivo When we lived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in the early 80s, we didn't have a car. We went ever...

What concerts have you attended? What concerts would you like to attend? We ate supper last night with Keely and Taurus (her boyfriend.) The...

Avocado tree at our Bolivian home The second year (1981) that we lived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, we rented an older stucco and adobe-brick h...

Three Kings Day -- Heilege Drei Könige Today was the 12th day of Christmas, tonight is " Twelfth Night " and this is my 12th an...

Another Trip Down Memory Lane... Life In Germany... Downtown Berlin at Christmas, about 1988 The largest city that I've ever lived in is...

Life In Germany... Twenty years ago, Dennis, I, and little Keely (1 year old) had been in West Germany for a few weeks. We had been sent to...