A New Citizen of the World: Oliver Miguel Connally
How do you fall in love with a person you’ve never met? I can’t explain it, but I know it happens, because it happened to me. I have a new grandson, born a week ago in Peru, and I love him dearly. Please meet Oliver Miguel Connally, who made his...Mission Workers Addressing Endemic Sexual Abuse
In my last post I wrote about the tiny Peruvian village church where my son has been helping the people to learn and teach the Bible. In this one I’d like to tell about what two children’s ministries workers were doing there that day.My son Brendan spends...Palm Sunday in the Andes
Holy Week (Semana Santa) is a huge yearly event in South America: holidays from work, street closures, gory parades dramatizing Christ’s suffering, heaped-up sentimentality, sometimes drunkenness. But not everyone joins in the festivities. For many reasons,...Kurawasi, Peru–The Andes in Spring (Oh, wait, no–it’s autumn here!)
The first Monday in April my husband, Rory, and I took a hike with our son Brendan outside the Andean village of Kurawasi. Though this is generally a dry region, the area was very green and astonishingly beautiful with new growth after its rainy season. Down there,...
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I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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