My life for the weeks before Christmas has been fueled by cookies.  First there was the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap (which was awes...

It can all change in a blink of an eye.  Or in the eye of a storm.  A typhoon to be exact. These pictures were taken a week ...

No internet or cell phones.  T.V. and radio, nope.  Shoot -- for several days we didn't even have a watch with us.   What time is it?...

August 15, 2006 It is over. Last night at the airport as I said goodbye to my friends (who I will see in a few weeks) and Eliki (w...

Ten years ago I made a quick decision, just on a whim really, to pack up and go on a mission trip to the Republic of Palau.  When I say q...