I’m sitting at my desk here in Port Vila, looking out the giant French doors that grace our bedroom. From here I can see out over the pool, down the …
Life in Vanuatu
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It’s New Year’s Eve!! I love New Year’s Eve, but this year the excitement is marred just a tiny bit (or almost completely) by the fact that I have to …
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At this point, I interrupt my (admittedly very sporadic) coverage of our year of awesome to bring you a short post on the US election. I know. What a downer. …
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The six weeks since my last post have been 100% year-of-awesome material. Well, unless you count the nasty case of shingles Mike came down with a week after my birthday. …
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We’ve rocked the awesome scale over the four-day Easter weekend—a four-day weekend that kicked off with my 40th birthday. This post is so not my deep and meaningful thoughts about …
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We did tick a box on the “year of awesome” list in February. Just scrapping in under the wire, we hit the beaches on a sparkling February 27th and headed …
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On our wedding anniversary last month, I declared this year The Year Of Awesome. Since then, our grand plans of a week away in New Zealand in March have been …
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It is a painful irony that we’ve lived in some of the most beautiful tropical locations you can search out in this world during the last five years, yet my …
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Almost four years ago, when my firstborn, Dominic, was five months old, my mother in law was carrying him down the stairs of our house in Northern Laos. She slipped …
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Dear friends, Today, it’s been six months since Cyclone Pam, and five months since the kids and I arrived here to face the mammoth task of unpacking, learning our new …
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It’s 6:30pm. By some miracle of miracles both kids are in bed. It’s dark, cold, and rainy outside. It feels like 10:00pm. I know many people are curious about what’s …
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I’ve thought about posting a couple of times in the last couple of weeks but everything here (and in my head) feels like such a disorganized mash-up of good and …