Andean Life Outside Machu Picchu: My Growing Affection for Abancay, Peru
My husband and I recently spent about a week-and-a-half in in Abancay, Peru, visiting our son Brendan, daughter-in-law Erin and new grandson Oliver. We travel to Peru about once a year these days because Brendan and Erin live there as missionaries, high in the Andean...Cameroonian Life
In the last two posts I wrote about visiting Cameroon. Here are some other things I found interesting while I was there: People eat animals that it would never occur to us to eat: bats, cane rats, what-have-you. We saw a boy standing beside the road, holding up a...A Trip to Yaounde, Cameroon
I hadn’t meant to neglect this blog for so long. The excuses for the neglect are a busy life and a broken computer, plus trying to finish revising a novel. Well, anyway, here we are. In the first half of September my husband and I visited Yaoundé, Cameroon,...
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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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