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Yesterday I went to church. I don’t know if it was the church itself, the music, the pastor, or if it was the knowledge that this church...

I’ve been blogging on Notepad for quite a while and can’t wait to get to an internet connection to make sure the world as I know it in...

Today I was that woman on the cover of National Geographic. You know, the one with the fire burning, long dress, naked baby on the hip...

By Cesar’s family’s description, we were going to the Brazilian equivalent of New York and would live in nothing short of a castle...

I wrote most of this post already and Audrey deleted in in less than a second. Ahhh!!! Let’s try this again: Who knew that one could...

If you think travel isn’t complicated enough, let me complicate things for you. I’m in the process of attempting to buy my ticket back to...

I won’t have too much to write because I’m late for a church service, but I wanted to keep you all updated. It’s been a really hard week,...

The trip back to the USA, for as smoothly as things went, has also been a kind of torture. I know, exagerration… but not much. I cried a...

So the last few days in Brasilia were pretty nice. We did tour a bit of Brasilia, and it was totally not what I expected. For the capital...

7/29 Leaving tomorrow morning for Brasilia. We’re going to stay a little under a week there and then I’ll be in Sao Paulo for about 2...

The other day I was looking at the stars on the farm and I just had to share with somebody, so I grabbed Cesar’s dad and dragged him...

When you have to plan to live as I am living now—an indefinite amount of time that is sure to be enough to go through the stages of...

The past few days have been a bit rough. I spent three days eating little to nothing because I had an upset stomach, diarrhea,...

Risking it all, I’m going to start with some possibly good news and then I’ll delve into where I’ve been for the past week. No, the good...

If I believed in the energy of inanimate things and luck in general, I would think that “the universe” is out to get me. I guess in...

To keep you up to date on the actual happenings, I thought it necessary to not only post the previous two theory posts, but also the...

Tomorrow is Independence Day and I’ve never missed the USA so much. I look back and remember the church musical and fireworks, cookouts,...

I thought I’d take a little time for a cultural observation as well as a geographical observation, both having to do in some way with...

So things haven’t been going great on the surface of things, but I’m actually feeling pretty good regardless. Our business got robbed on...

It’s time for me to face some things that I’ve been neglecting– all spiritual weaknesses that I’ve been excusing. A great church is a...