on the edge of ordinary

 This week is all about getting as much of our regular work finished as far ahead as possible. I've been doing these things this week: T...

Three years ago I wrote a six-article series for OMF US about home assignments, particularly about all the preparation that goes into one.* ...

These last couple of weeks have been much more pedestrian than our Spring Break adventure. It's been time to start facing up to the real...

We are inching closer and closer to home assignment. It's less than five weeks till we fly out of Japan and while I know there is a lot ...

A Pacific rhododendron I spied at our meeting on Monday. Gorgeous! This week started with a wonderful influx of people-time. On Monday we ha...

This week I'm preparing to help facilitate a two-week online workshop. I'm not experienced at teaching (and would be inclined to say...

So, one of our most obvious jobs these six-months is the up-front speaking. We spoke at two churches in July, and three Sunday morning churc...

As usual, I've been casting around in my mind for a blog post for today (even more so as I've not written for a coupole of days), bu...

I'm still struggling to find some open space for swimming. That's how I'm phrasing my current "status" at the moment...

It was a lovely weekend. Without an athletics meet to spend all day at on Saturday, we were left with a much slower-paced weekend than we...

Today we've been doing more home assignment preparation: we spent the afternoon talking about ideas of how to communicate about our wor...

Seven years ago this week I was in Hong Kong participating in a week-long  writer's workshop . This is one thing I wrote on my blog: E...

This morning David and I had a "shopping date". We headed off to a shopping centre and attached a list of stuff that needed attend...

Today has been more planning for presentations. Boring stuff to write about on a blog, really! Rubbish collection station around the corne...

On Monday we had a bonus day to our weekend. This week just gone is called Golden Week in Japan. That's because it is "golden...