I’ve really been struggling lately.  I mean, I think you’ve noticed.  We arrived here in February and started work three days later and we haven’t really stopped since.  I had […]

The other night at Arabic class, a woman from Germany and a man from Venezuela, told me that I have a hard accent to understand.  The Bishop, when I speak to […]

I often find myself completely out of control in situations here. A stressful situation (two border crossings) where I did not speak the language of either country and I have […]

I’m just tired.  Tired, worn out, feeling a bit abandoned.  I keep telling myself that maybe if I can just make it to June, it’ll be okay.  May is a […]

      These photos come from the separation wall that surrounds the city of Bethlehem.  It is 8-meters-high and cuts off Bethlehem from other parts of the West Bank. […]

I formulated a post in my head walking to work today.  Then something happened in the Holy Sepulchre that changed things.  I had a post written in my head last […]

I’ve been accepted at a funeral for a person I didn’t know.  I was surrounded by a mob of Muslim school girls in Bethlehem, giggling school girls at that.  I […]