It’s funny the rabbit trails our minds follow. I was just standing next to the dryer, folding my husband’s shirts, one day when I noticed it. The shirt in question was no longer white, but rather a baby blue because of a previous laundry incident (I admit: I rarely separate laundry as I was taught. […]
Rice and Beans Challenge
Ice bucket challenges wouldn’t go over that well here in many parts of Nicaragua (and throughout Central America), where we are facing the worst drought since 1976. This is what nine months without rain looks like… There are normally two plantings in Nicaragua. The first takes place in May, just as the rains begin. This […]
Introducing… FIT Conversations (because God writes the best stories)
A few years ago an acquaintance made an offhand comment that has become one of my favorite phrases. While I’ve often thought of myself as a storyteller, this sentence helps ground me to the Author of all. “Doesn’t God write the most amazing stories?” she said with a smile. At the time, I was in […]
My 3-bag-challenge toward living with less (part 3)
This week I’m revisiting the process I went through to downsize our 1800-square-foot home to 12 suitcases (plus some storage items) as we prepared to move abroad two-and-a-half years ago. [This was the third post in this exploration of living with less.] I wasn’t expecting to write about this topic again (see part 1 and […]