Compassion

Well. I have returned from the Amazon jungle, mis amigos. And am simultaneously relieved and yet strangely disappointed to report I did not see a single monkey or a snake. However, I do think I heard a band of monkeys off in the distance while I was trying to sleep last night. When Shaun Groves and Patricia Jones first began to share the details of this trip, I was a little intimidated by Read More

Well. So here's a sentence I never imagined I'd say, I'm currently in the Amazon Rainforest. But I'm not writing this from there because apparently the jungle isn't known for its internet. Which really makes sense because I never once saw Diego pull a laptop out of his rescue pack. But in the meantime, I thought y'all might enjoy these videos that Brian made of our first two days in Read More

I will have y’all know that after a day of dust and climbing up a very steep hill in a dusty corner of Equador that I’m currently sitting in a hotel lobby listening to a piano player belt out the classic You Can Do Magic by America. Somewhere in there might be some symbolism but I am too tired to look for it right now. Sadly at some point in the last twenty-four hours I have developed a bit Read More

I'll just be honest. I have no idea where or how to begin this. So I'm going to do something completely novel and start at the beginning. I was born in Houston, Texas in 1971. What? Too much? Okay, so P dropped me off at the airport on Monday morning. I caught a flight to Dallas. And then Miami. Once I arrived in Miami I met up with all my fellow Compassion travelers and ate a salad Read More

All I know is it's a good thing I got an extra hour this weekend because I needed it. Because even with the addition of the extra hour, I still feel like I am just barely getting everything done I need to do before I leave San Antonio at 10:30 Monday morning on a flight to Dallas. And then a flight to Miami. And then a flight to Quito, Ecuador. It didn't help that I spent a lot of Sunday Read More

Do you remember when I mentioned about two weeks ago that I'd gone to get a passport photo taken because my passport was about to expire? Not that I expect you to remember. I can barely recall it myself and it's my life. But I do remember being kind of surprised that no one asked me why I needed a passport. I guess all my attempts to convey how glamorous my life really is have paid off. Of Read More

About 7 p.m. last night, a group of bloggers flew out of the Chicago airport bound for New Delhi. And because I am a little obsessive, every time I woke up last night I would think about the fact they were STILL on a plane. In fact, as of this moment, they are STILL on a plane. That is a lot of honey-roasted peanuts. Anyway, they've been on my heart because I know a little bit about what Read More

I'm going to be totally honest with y'all today and say that I just don't have much funny in me at the moment. In fact, I feel a little bit like I'm having the missionary version of post-traumatic stress syndrome, but without the trauma or the stress. If I had to compile a list of my talents it would probably be a short list. However, chief among my gifts would be my ability to Read More