Month: June 2014

I was given a zulu name last week!  FINALLY!  After living in South Africa for 7 years, I have a Zulu name.  Nomphilo.  It means “to have health” or “to be healthy.”  Very fitting for me as I LOVE all things healthy!  I have quite a reputation around these parts for being the “carrot woman.”…

…that approximately 30% of the population of the province I live in is HIV+?  That is 1 out of 3!  Yet people are still quite ignorant about HIV and how the virus works.  

I was working a night shift on December 31, 1999, on a nephrology ward at a hospital in Edmonton, Alberta.  I remember clearly talking to my manager as I got off of work at 11pm.  She asked me to keep my phone on in case life as we knew it fell apart when that computer…

Furlough – A word all missionaries are very familiar with and delight in!  A time to see family, to eat foods that are familiar and comforting, to shop in stores that seem “normal,” to hug family anytime they want to, to rest, to recuperate, and to prepare to head back to the foreign land they…