Living in Beijing we keep a wary eye on the Air Quality Index (AQI), to see if it is safe to go outside without a protective mask. Yesterday when I looked the AQI was 170 (Unhealthy), which is kind of normal here. While I wasn’t watching the AQI soared to over 400 (Hazardous). After seeing […]

The words “I love you” rarely mean very much these days. No matter how sincerely they are proclaimed, there is often something held back. Most mean something like, “I will give you what you want as long as I get what I want from the deal.” During weddings you hear “they are so in love”

While assigned in Vienna, Austria (2008) we enjoyed the beautiful city, attended a great Church and we found new friends. I enjoyed my job and having just been promoted, I enjoyed a measure of success. I suffered from allergies, so the Medical Unit prescribed a well-known allergy medicine. I just had to wait for it

When you hear about the “beautiful people” what comes to mind? Do you think of celebrities, the wealthy, or of physically beautiful people? The media who label celebrities “beautiful people” also report on their scandals and troubled relationships. Life in the spotlight can lead celebrities to drug and alcohol abuse, struggles to keep their looks,

I watched with interest from China as a typhoon passed through the Philippines. Seeing people wading through flooded streets on the news, my feet were dry and I complained about interrupted programming from our Philippine-based television channels. Seeing news accounts of Christians being persecuted and dying for their faith in Iraq, I was annoyed when