When I compare kids who grow up in families to kids who grow up in institutions, there are actually more similarities than you would think. All kids want the attention of the adults in their lives. They want to show you a cool trick that they learned to do with the soccer ball. And as they get older,...
If I'm honest I don't think I knew anything about Romania until I met Haley. I take that back. I knew one thing. Romania produced one of the most awkward yet endearing NBA players of all time. The 7'7" Gheorghe Muresan. My only real memory of him was a ridiculous mock cologne commercial he made for snickers. At...
When people ask you what you do, or what you used to do, you get some interesting looks when you say "missionary." Their minds either go straight to images of Mother Teresa, or knocking on doors like a salesman. Neither is accurate. So I've stopped telling people my "title" and just tell them what I actually did. Taught...
We are going back. We just got back, but we are going back, too. Going back implies a homecoming. Or home-going. Whenever you leave somewhere, you say, "I'm going back." The back home is implied. When you have two homes, you are always going back. Which is strange, because you can't go back when you just got back. But going back is...
