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Work Day covering up septic tank and refinishing beds
There are volunteers this week, from Indianapolis, who lend fifty hands. On our work menu is covering up a newly installed septic tank, filling in a washed out area around the clothesline, spreading gravel in areas that get muddy and cause kids to track...
Gecko on the screen
Gecko's are ubiquitous, strutting on television commercials, hiking up walls, screens, lounging on tree branches around my Haiti home. This gecko doesn't stay long enough for introductions and moves away quickly as I approach. In a shutter click he is...
Scott’s Pad A warm shower whenever I want it
Next to Ms. Sue's is a house with an upstairs and a downstairs. Upstairs is rented to two east Indian scientists who run the Christianville lab on infectious diseases. Downstairs is a small two bedroom apartment, furnished, for guests at Christianville....
Volunteering in Haiti In the Country
On customs forms, my destination is spelled - Christianville, Haiti. Christianville is not a town, city or village but a walled, fenced, compound in the Haitian countryside that is a trade school, a co-ordinating point for churches from abroad doing...
Funny White Stuff back in the USSA
Mogpog has typhoons. Colorado has snow. This morning Colorado vehicles have a snow blanket of white and a rising sun is beginning to melt the blanket. The United States has launched cruise missiles into a Syrian military base claiming chemical...
Flight Tracker Tokyo to Minnesota
On the back of the airplane seat, directly in front of me, is an entertainment console with music, movies, and diversions.. If I hit a flight tracker button on the console, I can see the path of our current flight in midair, the wind speed, plane speed,...
Escalator Selfie Haneda Airport, Japan
This tunnel is well lit. Some tunnels are rabbit holes, some filled with pack rat vaults. Some tunnels are underground, dark and womb like, leading to gold and silver leprechaun caches. Some tunnels are constructed with giant boring machines, go under...
Cooking on a hot stone Haneda Airport, Japan
"Watch out for the stone, " the short order cook says, as he slides my meal across the counter to me. " It is very hot." I look at a dark stone shaped like a huge pill on my plate, then look at my under cooked meat next to it. The hot stone, it appears,...
Tokyo Train Narita Airport to Haneda Airport - Japan
There were trains for getting around before there were planes. You have to walk before you can fly. The first trains were big, lumbering, uncomfortable, dark, and were powered by men shoveling coal into fireboxes to heat water and using the created steam...
Marinduque to Manilla return boat ride
The nautical miles click by and Marinduque disappears. The Philippines move into memories, that funky place where facts get forgotten, emotions get heightened, truth gets obscured, and we turn experiences into what we want them to be instead of what they...
Gwen graduates Kindergarden ceremony
On this day, Gwen graduates from kindergarten at a local community center. It takes some urging to go on stage with her aunt April, but she walks on and is recognized.There are recitations by some of the kids, comments by teacher's and invited guests, a...
Albert and Bella playing on the front porch
Albert and Bella are two of five dogs at the house. There are also two cats plus a new Kitty who joined the wrecking crew last night, abandoned in the road and following us home. Next morning it is curled up against one of the dogs on the front step,...
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