Even though my return flight to MA from Romania was cancelled due to severe snowstorms in Germany on December 2, the airline was able to reschedule me for the next day.  It was disconcerting, for sure, but in the end,…

AS always, I love seeing everyone back in the States – I have missed folks! – but it also deeply saddens me to have to leave our precious orphans each time.  I’ve been asked this before, but just days ago,…

I praise God for ‘Summer-bonus’ days in October.  I have been in RO when it snowed at the end of August!  And it snows often in October.  Our climate is much like New England’s where the saying is, “If you…

Never ready to ‘release’ summer, I am so thankful to God for giving us bonus ‘summer’ days!  I am never quite ready for the Fall season as beautiful as it is simply because of what follows . . . We…

– I feel so blessed to be our Jesus’ eyes and heart, hands and feet in this, the ‘other’ land that I love.  However, Romania seems to have been hurtled into very troubling times.  The government is gaining more control…