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Recently, this editorial appeared in the Washington Post: Condom Sense Pope Benedict XVI is wrong. Washington Post Editorial, Thursday, March 19, 2009; Page A14 THE LATE New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.” This holds true even for the pope. While onContinue reading “AIDS and the News – originally posted 3/25/09”

I’ve been delayed in posting this entry about Ben’s birthday party on March 1st.  He had a “bug” party, so we put up pictures of bugs all over, spread out all our plastic bugs, and made a “dirt cake”, which was layers of chocolate cake, pudding, chocolate shavings, gummy bugs, and oreo crumbs.  It sureContinue reading “Ben turns 3 – originally posted 3/25/09”

Sorry about the title, guys!  I know you’ll hate it.  But I wanted to post about some wonderful young people who are trying to make a difference here.  There is a local orphanage, run by a young Mozambican man who is married to an American, and some of the missionary teens periodically try to doContinue reading “Those Fine Young People – originally posted 3/20/09”

Well, I complained in a previous post about people digging for boogers and God thought He’d have a laugh at my expense.  Me and the boys have been sick this week with croup/cold/flu with fever, wet cough and lots of congestion.  Ben, predictably, has been very boogery and I’ve been too sick to follow himContinue reading “Boogers – originally posted 3/20/09”

Things are just different here in Mozambique, and although there are things that don’t phase me at all anymore (like seeing a mentally ill naked person walk down the street – although it is sad) there are some things that make me just shake my head in disbelief. 1.  On a positive note, the generosityContinue reading “10 Things I Have not Gotten Used To – originally posted 2/29/09”

You may, or may not, have heard of the cholera problems this year in Africa.  Cholera is generally caused by dirty water. Fecal matter infected by the cholera “bug” gets in the water, and people injest it.  That’s why we don’t have it in America anymore (last outbreak was in 1910). When you become illContinue reading “Cholera – originally posted 2/29/09”

Well, our internet was down for a week, and we had lots of “fun” during that week.  Kevin got really sick last Tuesday, and though a malaria test showed negative we started him on the medication on Wednesday, when I realized that if he got any sicker I’d have to take him to the hospital. Continue reading “The Week in Review – originally posted 2/20/09”

Every once in awhile we REALLY need to get away, and the easiest getaway for us is in Nacala, a port town just 2 1/2 hours east of us.  We went off 2 weeks ago and enjoyed two nights and 1 1/2 days there (way too short) visiting friends and snorkeling off the beach.  TobyContinue reading “Nacala – originally posted 2/27/09”

A few weeks ago, an Austrian missionary friend of ours taught a seminar in our garage on the uses of Artemesia.  What is Artemesia, you ask?  Well, it is a plant from Asia that has been used there for hundreds (thousands?) of years in the treatment of malaria.  A group called Anamed (Action for NaturalContinue reading “Artemesia Seminar – originally posted 2/27/09”

Ben came down with some very strange skin lesions this week, and at first we thought it was just a couple of sores from falling down.  But, when we noticed how round they were, and that they were spreading, we realized that it is Ringworm.  Ringworm is actually a fungus, not a worm, and isContinue reading “Spotty the Ben – originally posted 2/7/09”