The Sad Side of Success

The Sad Side of Success

I have been able to drop about 15 pounds since arriving back in our village a month and a half ago. Having spent a fair bit of time on the “husky” side of the scale lately, it’s been nice to finally see a bit of movement in this other, less blubbery, direction. I...
Awake, Oh Sleeper

Awake, Oh Sleeper

Not everyone knows this about me, but I have insomnia. It first started right about the time we arrived in PNG and began our language study in 2015, and it has been going strong ever since. Now, I know that correlation does not equal causation, but I am a Millennial,...
Meet Izzy

Meet Izzy

I was going to write about language-learning woes today, because that is where my mind is at these days. As I pondered my potential prose however, I was reminded of a post I did a while ago on that same subject. I went back and reread that other post and was impressed...
Near-Nude Generosity

Near-Nude Generosity

The other day, I started a post off with a fictitious account of a man named Stuart. It was meant as a playful anecdote containing a thinly veiled moral lesson: Give to charity or end up as a grease smear on the highway. Well, within 24 hours of my posting that story,...