Contact me

By
If you would like to contact me, feel free to see me on Facebook or e-mail me.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WE'RE ON THE MOVE

By
Image
Chuck and I are on the move again. This time it's a bigger adventure than all the other ones combined. Chuck is going to be a missionary in the Eurasia region for The Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod. He was called to be a theological educator - "helping to strengthen Lutheran pastors to bring Jesus to de-Christianized Europe."

He will be working at first with a young vicar in Romania, mentoring him to become the only confessional Lutheran pastor who will preach in Romanian. Sorin-Horia Trifa lives in Bucharest, Romania so we will be traveling there to work with him.

We will be living in Prague, Czech Republic and be traveling to do the work with others. As of now, I'm not really sure how much of the time I'll be traveling with Chuck. I'll be working on my third book and working on whatever God can use me in Europe.

We are in the process of packing up our apartment, giving some things away, packing things to take to Prague, and storing other things. In other…
Read more

DOORKNOBS AND WINDOWS

By
Image
We now have been in Prague for about a week. All important things have been accomplished. We have Prague phone numbers - and are able to be online with our phones now. We've downloaded Google Translate, which is a life saver. When we're in the grocery store, we can turn on that app and our phone camera will "read" the words on the Czech labels and translate for us.


Our temporary apartment is very typical. It has a kitchen, living/dining room and one large bedroom. As usual over here, there is a bathroom with sink and shower and a separate W.C. (water closet) which contains the toilet.


Also, very typically there is no carpet at all in our apartment. It has tile flooring in the kitchen and bathroom areas and wood laminate in the remainder of the rooms.


One thing that is totally unusual for Americans in Prague (and all of Europe) is the windows. They open two directions. The handle is turned down if the window is locked shut (right window in picture). If you want lots of…
Read more

DOING LAUNDRY IS ALWAYS THE SAME - OR IS IT

By
Image
Thankfully, we have a washing machine in our apartment. I was thrilled to hear that. I must say that it's quite tiny, though. It sits below the cabinet in our bathroom as you can see in the picture.

Because of it's size, I need to do laundry almost every day. One load consisted of our two bath towels. It seems ridiculous, but the washer was full with just the two towels.
The first time I tried to wash a load, I couldn't figure out how it worked. I mean how hard can it be to use a wash machine. I've been using them for more than 40 years.

On the day we moved in, the landlord tried to explain it to me in his clipped English, but I just waived him off and said I'd figure it out. When it came right down to doing it, however, it was a different matter.

The dial looked much more complicated than I'd ever seen. The strange thing to me was that the red numbers in the display window had 137 in it. I wasn't sure what that meant - temperature of the water? speed of t…
Read more