Keeping in touch

One of the most difficult challenges for me in the early years on the mission field was keeping in touch with friends around the world. Twenty-two years later, we now not only have a telephone line directly to our house, we have high speed internet, a Lingo phone with a Cleveland area code, instant messaging, and Skype. Our children literally never lose friends, as they add their contacts onto Facebook, MySpace, (or as I mistakenly called it "My Face"), and other ways of staying connected. I'm learning from them.

Having a home page has given people a way to stay connected with us, until we started getting nasty comments on our page, and we had to make it a private site. Please do me and check out our web page, and sign up to receive our prayer updates by sending an email here. As you know, I hate losing friends! I'm still trying to re-compile my newsletter lists from the last computer glitch we had.

This blog will primarily be a place where I can add the daily trivia that others have said they'd like to hear, but that would bog down our monthly updates. I might also begin rewriting some tidbits from my journals that would never get published otherwise. Any stories I tell that get a good laugh, I will try to put to writing as well.

People have told me for years that I should write a book. I've never figured out how people with full and satisfying lives can both live and write to tell about it. This way I can write little by little, and if I ever find anything worth putting in a book, maybe it will come from these musings. Who knows?

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