I first met him in the summer of 2007, in Dominican Republic. He was taking in some shade under the only tree that was close to where he worked: in the garbage dump. We would often sit there and chatter, me in my terrible Spanish and him rattling off in Creole and Spanish and smiling […]
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I think there is a little part of each of us that loves cheesy TV shows, sappy movies, and corny characters. There has to be - how else have sitcoms lasted this long?
Jenna Lane’s life has never been short on drama - if not less than idyllic - and according to her recollection, it all […]
I was a bit of a victim of a lack of cable tv when I was a kid. I didn’t get to see all the shows that other kids talked about growing up: the ones that you needed to not live on a farm in the middle of nowhere for. But I remembered the puppet, […]
...continue readingIt evokes different images for each person that hears it: It warms, protects, fuels, provides, and sometimes it devours. It’s the four letter “f” word, fire. It can only start if many different chemical elements and states are in place, if the air movement is right and there is the perfect reaction of elements. Of […]
...continue readingShe likes to play with her friends, take care of her younger siblings, meet new people, and is always eager to learn new English words. Maria goes to the school in the community that Absolute helps to teach English at, and everywhere Rose turned this past year, little Maria seemed to be there, hauling her […]
...continue readingI should have been more specific and I should have considered the question from their point of view. In hindsight, it’s really funny how quirky life is sometimes.
We have just completed a really cool building project in Aguas Negra, Dominican Republic. It was with a Christmas Hero Holiday group, and together with the help of […]
Love is a word we use so often in the English language that we sometimes forget the power and force behind what it means to truly love. I love chocolate, but I also love my husband. I love sunshine but I also love my family. In our current culture, people fall in and out of […]
...continue readingSometimes the time is right to bring about instant change. Sometimes our words or actions become part of long chain of events that bring about the occurrence of hope. Always, in what we do in Absolute, we are doing it with the intention that in some way we are going to be able to be […]
...continue readingMy mom used to tell me that I can always choose my friends, but I can’t choose my family. Usually this was in response to my complaint about something said ‘family’ did, but nevertheless, it is a very true statement. There is something about the love of a family that is more about commitment than […]
...continue readingHow NOT to House Surf Down a Ravine
Published by November 24th, 2010 in FB, 52 and Newsletter. ClosedI currently live really close to the beach. The surfing beach, actually. Vaden and I are living in Dominican Republic as we wait and hope to bring our 5 year old adopted daughter home to Canada. I keep telling myself I want to get into surfing, because it just seems to somehow up your cool […]
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