My mom is the one who smiles at strangers. Genuine, from her eyes smiles—and they respond. My dad barks at dogs in the streets. Not quiet, tentative barking—loud listen-up yapping. The dog owners ignore him and the dogs usually do, too. He notices people, asks strangers random questions like, “Are you pretty good with that […]
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That’s us by the Cessna in the feature photo above (email readers will need to click through to the blog), ready to take flight for Deer Lake. This is my fourth year of traveling to Deer Lake, a reserve of around a thousand people in northern Ontario, to help with summer Bible school. This year, we had
There is a place and a people in the North that has grown in my heart over the years, a place where laughter is loud and deep, where space is wide and silence immense, where loons call and we will have moose for supper tonight. Deer Lake, Ontario, here we come!
Our trip ended in Canton, known for its duck and delicious teas and dim sum. Our Chinese friends, Liang and Sami, live here, in the city of Guangzhou. Our second to last day in China, they took us to Sami’s hometown: a small town in the countryside of Canton whose name I can’t remember. I
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Xiapu is a county known for its mud flats… …and its sea food. Soon after we arrived at our inn on the edge of the city, we walked down to the harbor, where the tide was just coming in. We hailed a captain and asked for a ride. He took us with a few other
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