Best vinaigrette ever

For months I have been making a cabbage salad that is out of this 3rd world! It’s so good! Fresh cabbage, carrot, green bell pepper, shallots. All being the only veg available, minus the mustard green/Chinese greens… I eat these veg every day. Got to learn how to mix it up! The vinaigrette that I…

My first Sabbath

Many people upon discovering that i adore the Sabbath have many questions. They can be summed up in one: What exactly does that mean, Sabbath?  I have been excited to tell this story, I’ve been waiting for the right moment. I suppose this is it! I have been completely transformed by the Sabbath. Taking a…

Alice

So long it seems. I feel like I have been in Africa for a lifetime. Every part of me feels older. My knees sure, but also my heart. So many times we as people can open or lives to someone only to be completely blindsided and left questioning why. I know that many will agree…

Gift stays

The sky was still dark. I could hear her cleaning her room. I sat at my desk with my head in my hands contemplating the ramifications of what I wanted verse what is best. Summers break is over now. Only 2 weeks. Kids go to school year round with 2/3 weeks break between the terms.…

My morning routine

Like clock work, the not so small anymore, whimper to the right side of my bed tells me that I have approximately 10 seconds to untie myself from what ever strange dream I’m in and acknowledge my dog, Koinonia. I know the results of ignoring this, about 20 min mending my net before bed. I…

The little jar of dirt

A story two long years in the making. Well…longer than. It is hard to say where I should start. I think I should start with how I met her. I had just moved to Westminster, a suburb of Denver, Colorado. I had big dreams of a degree and a pretty awful but awfully cheap apartment.…

Coming home

After 3 days of travel I made it home from Malawi, Central Africa! And boy were my arms tired! 😉 I had amazing flight companions and my trip was incredibly blessed! Thank you everyone who prayed for me!  Walking to baggage claim was the beginning of dream land. Am I really here? Candice Hudson Mary…

The three visits

What feel like several lifetimes ago, I lived alone. Well not exactly alone. I had the two puppies. We had moved from a house on snob nob in Chicali village to a hostel at the bottom of the hill. We moved to a one room bungalow and then back to Snob nob in our own…

Horror

Not for the faint of heart. The day started well. It’s final tests for Gift to pass standard 6 and move on to summer break! I took my morning to make Gift a hot bath and also make sure she (and the neighbours girls) had a good breakfast so they were focused. Testing today is…

Chicken

When coming back from a trip to Muzuzu, my comrades said, “I say, Teneil? Could you mind maybe, if we could just stop for a little bit, in the town just here? We was thinking that we could maybe get some relish, it’s really very inexpensive, up just here.” Relish is the term used for…