There is a popular praise song called “Glorious One” written by Steve Fee. In the second verse it states: God of infinite worth with hands that carve out the ocean You hold the universe and still You run to the broken I was reminded of the immediacy of those words today. Still reeling from the […]

Funny how your brain works after being up for over 24 hours. In my case, it doesn’t. After a very long day, and almost 5000 miles later, we arrived in Raleigh at midnight. That was good. Then we faced a 2 hour drive to Wilmington. That was bad. Felt like a 8 hour drive. Continually […]

Sometimes you just can’t win . . . Poor ol’ rooster. He’s the King of the coup; he struts his stuff; the hens are his harem. But, in the backyard of a small house in Ubaúna, one particular rooster was having an especially hard week. First, there was the issue of the fox. Now, foxes […]

We’re baaacck! Made the drive from Ubaúna in record time. Only hit 1 pothole, no donkeys, no goats and no people! Car looks like it has been through the Baja1000 cross-country road race — totally covered with sand and dust. I want to try to define “hot” for you in an upcoming post, but, just […]

Since we’ve begun coming to Fortaleza regularly in 1998 we’ve always stayed at the same hotel. Every day at 6:00 a.m. the tapioca lady shows up in front of the hotel to sell tapioca. She stays for almost 3 hours. It takes her an hour and a half to bicycle from her home to her […]