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Well, after four years of blogging, I finally got the perfect tagline. This is the quote that will forever be enshrined somewhere on the yetispeak blog page. And to think I didn’t even have to bribe my friend, Rick, into making this comment. And I quote:"yetispeak is the GREATEST WEBSITE IN THE HISTORY OF THE…
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Or as a friend recently suggested, "Happy Reformation Day!"… The girls had a great Halloween this year even without any other children to share in the festivities. They discovered that you don’t really need a neighborhood in order to go "trick or treating". All you need is a home with a lot of doors and…
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We have pictures. We’ve been in Xining over the weekend with our team, and alas, I’ve recovered the digital camera USB cord! So we have some long overdue photo albums for your viewing pleasure. Here are some photos from our recent time in Thailand. Here are some photos depicting our autumn in Jianzha. And here…
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Some sick people out there (who will remain nameless) have wanted to see pictures of these rats that I’ve been happy to have exterminated lately. In the spirit of Halloween, I will oblige this request with visual evidence. If you have a weak stomach DO NOT click on the link below. Believe me, it’s not…
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Just a visual plug to recommend reading a good book this weekend. I think I’m going to re-read David James Duncan’s The River Why over the next few weeks. It’s definitely in my top five I’d say. We’ll see if that still holds true.
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We do actually do other things out here besides obsess over rats. Seriously, we do. OK, for me it probably breaks down like this: 90% = Time spent obsessing over rats10% = Time spent doing more meaningful stuff (like eating, sleeping, blogging, etc.) But please don’t judge my family based on my OCD behavior. That…
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I don’t know when it happened, when it all got so serious, but lately my prayers have all turned into implicatory psalms. Here’s an example of one that I hijacked from King David (italics mine): Psalm 59 (Abbreviated and Remixed) Rescue me from my enemies–the rats, O God.Protect me from those who have come to…
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The best way to tell if you are dealing with the hyper-intelligent rats of NIMH (as opposed to the slow-witted garden variety) is to find out what they like to eat. The rats I have been dealing with here in J-town, those still living that is, prefer biscuits with a nice smudge of strawberry jam…
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When I told Anna that my aunt Robin was probably going to die, her brow furrowed darkening her face for a moment. "When…" she asked me a bit alarmed, "…right now?" "We don’t know, Anna. It will probably be soon." How do you explain terms like cancer, chemo, and terminal illness to a five…
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As the temperatures drop and I find myself stoking the coal four or five times a day, I am thankful for friends who give fleece*. Our friends, the Carnes, sent us an early Christmas package in August with many REI goodies that I have recently come to appreciate more fully. Layers upon layers have kept…
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