We wanted to let you all know that MiShui’s arm has healed well! Herlast appointment was very good and she is now in a smaller cast and isattending school (thank God it was her left arm). She is a reallyhappy Akha girl again, playing and jumping around without fear.Thanks for all your prayers and support! [...]

For the past couple of days, Paul and I have been trying to get up to the village. However, it seems that every afternoon when we should be loading up the car to go, something delays us and we have to put the village off another day. While we’ve certainly learned the value of flexibility [...]

I started an amazing book this morning. Talking Animals. Magic. Giants. Nomads. Wars. Murder. Adventure. Emerging Culture. Emerging Language. And all of that is just the introduction. The stage. The first 15 chapters of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Many of you heard me share about my struggles with literacy in culture and how it’s [...]

Remember sweet little A Mi? (Akha Have Allergies Too, May 8 2006) Well, the liquid anti-histamine finally did the trick and she is all smiles again. One of our constant observations as we try to give back to our village with our Akha Clinic is that the learning curve for medical care is pretty steep. [...]

It’s love, of course, that makes us fathers do it – love for the woman we’ve married and love for every baby we’ve ever seen, except the one that threw up on our shoes. And so, in spite of all our reservations about this scary business of reproduction, we must admit that people look happy [...]