On November 9, after two weeks in Kenya, my husband and I landed safely at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. It was a long journey and I was ecstatic to back on sovereign Texas soil. When traveling abroad, one has to put aside all Western thinking; otherwise you will end up miserable for the Read More
Growing up who did not secretly wish, even briefly to be a super hero? Personally, I always wanted to be Wonder Woman. Her ability to spin around and change clothes, transforming from ordinary Diana Prince to Princess Diana AKA Wonder Woman mesmerized me. Never mind that the television character played by Lynda Carter in the Read More
Ever noticed the “Warrior Princess” tag line at the end of each “Living Outside the Lines” column? Well, today I will tell you the story behind the signature. November 19, 2011 I embarked on a journey known as the Warrior Dash. This journey was several months and some severe arm-twisting in the making. When I first Read More
Mention the word hero and the mind conjures up a vast array of images. Those images might range from fictitious comic book characters, to larger than life sports celebrities, to the notorious rich and famous, to the great philosophical thinkers of this century. However, the truest heroes live by the Biblical mantra, “Greater love hath Read More
Huffing and puffing she grabs her soapbox, drags it center stage, climbs up and begins her rant. Toilet paper dispensers are not complicated, nor does their design vastly differ from one toilet to the next. So, please, please, help me understand why it is that soooo many of them sit empty? We aren’t talking about Read More
Growing up in church, the concept of foreign missions wasn’t unfamiliar to me, but neither was it personal. Missionary work was something other people did. In 2003 my husband took his first missions trip to Macedonia, I stayed home and took care of the children. In 2005 he made his first trip to Kenya, returning Read More
Technology is an amazing thing. I’m writing this column in October, from the privacy of my home, but by time it is published, I will have been in Kenya for approximately six days and will still have about that many more to go. No doubt I will have much to write about when I return, Read More
