From the Rocky Mountain News:
The literary champ was sitting in his command post kitchen chair, a piece of blank paper in his favorite typewriter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot through the mouth hours earlier.
But a small circle of family and friends gathered around with stories, as he wished, with glasses full of his favored elixir […]
So I called the mechanic today around 1:30, and after locating him, he asks me when I last had my car tuned up. I tell him, “just six months ago, and I had it looked over before I left the US, too.” He implies that they did a poor job as he tells […]
Hello friends, thank you for your empathetic comments and prayers.
After sleeping from 5AM to 8AM, I called Joe Harrell, who offered to pick me up at metro Auditorio and take me over to where my car was parked near Anahuac University. Our first prayer was that the car was far enough from the […]
Well, it’s about 4:30 AM on Thursday morning, and I’m just getting home. On my way back from Rick Box’s home tonight, I slid a couple of car lengths on wet pavement into a car that had slowed to a crawl going over a speed bump. What followed was about three hours of […]
Today we have a special guestblog entry with Elisa Moon, multicultural consultant and linguist extraordinaire.
PWD: So, Elisa, does it feel odd to be talking to me in English, after your forays into Spanish, Yiddish, Korean, and Mayan?
Elisa: Yiddish? Where did that come from?
PWD: Oh, sorry, I guess I added […]
Today I went to a prayer meeting with some pastors and elders at 7:30, especially those tied to the national prebyterian church’s church planting arm, which was good. Since my car doesn’t circulate today, I just jumped on the subway and two stops later was near the meeting place. We then adjourned to Sanborns […]
As I searched for some reasonably priced furniture last week, I happened to be standing next to a fellow buying a computer at Office Max. I think I may have ruined his day when I said - “hey, I bought that computer awhile ago…for about half that price!” As I walked away, wondering […]
Tonight as I was heading home from the English Bible study in Lomas, I was listening to the radio (everybody is being urged to show their support for the chief of the Mexico City government in some march this week - he has been accused of some shady land dealings but new evidence seems to […]
Here is a picture of Mark in a quaint cupola through which you can see the Cerro de Bernal. Bernal is a beautiful colonial town located north of Mexico City, and the cerro (read “hill”) of Bernal is said to be the “fourth largest obelisk in the world”. You can’t see it in this […]
This is a picture that I took while Mark & I were sitting in traffic as the sun made its retreat the day we got into Mexico City. Things to note include…
*Red lights everywhere - you do a lot of sitting in traffic in the DF.
*A huge statue of diana the huntress in the […]