Urgent Request: We Interrupt this Blog

A Beautiful Church. Tiva, Tahaa, French Polynesia. January, 2004. Please Pray With Me Last week my third-millennium friend Charity shared her worry that her cancer has returned.  Yesterday, she reported that cancer once again has invaded her body. Will you please do this with me? Close your eyes, bow your head, drop to your knees, […]


Urgent Request: We Interrupt this Blog

A Beautiful Church. Tiva, Tahaa, French Polynesia. January, 2004. Please Pray With Me Last week my third-millennium friend Charity shared her worry that her cancer has returned.  Yesterday, she reported that cancer once again has invaded her body. Will you please do this with me? Close your eyes, bow your head, drop to your knees, […]


Sisters, not "Sisters"

Cousins Elaine and Hoanie, at the Motu. Tahaa, French Polynesia, January, 2004 Family in Far Places Most of our kin live in California, no more than a day’s drive from my home. A few in-laws have moved east, but we are essentially a Left Coast family. But I also have three sisters who live with their […]


Sisters, not "Sisters"

Cousins Elaine and Hoanie, at the Motu. Tahaa, French Polynesia, January, 2004 Family in Far Places Most of our kin live in California, no more than a day’s drive from my home. A few in-laws have moved east, but we are essentially a Left Coast family. But I also have three sisters who live with their […]


>Sisters, not "Sisters"

> Cousins Elaine and Hoanie, at the Motu. Tahaa, French Polynesia, January, 2004 Family in Far Places Most of our kin live in California, no more than a day’s drive from my home. A few in-laws have moved east, but we are essentially a Left Coast family. But I also have three sisters who live with […]