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Volume 3: 2000-2002 Gambia & Return 2000 NOTE: My Gambia Newsletters were more consistent and briefer than my journal entries which I kept using “Not Enough Time” as an excuse for not being more consistent after January 2000 (which was the first full month there when I wrote fairly often). 🙂 Though also referenced in …
Volume 2– 1990-1999 (My most difficult decade.) By Charlie Doggett The entries from January 22, 1990 through February 19, 1996 are many taken from my “Dad’s Diary for Julianne” (Juli’s Book) plus a mixture from other journals. The entries in “Juli’s Book”were written to Juli for her to have and read as an adult later …
Volume 1 – 1963-1989 By Charlie Doggett The most actual journal writing here is from 1979 on in what I loosely call “Juli’s Book” or the diary I began on her life from the time we knew we were pregnant with her. I have included other writings of mine, thus marked all of the others …
Now I wish I had been regular in keeping a journal. Over the years I have written mostly short-term journals about specific events, weeks, trips, experiences. At least once I tried to begin long-term journals that I thought would go on indefinitely like in 1996. But they never seem to continue for very long. It …
JOURNAL Journal entries related to this 1999 Mission Trip to Kenya in the midst of selling my house, getting rid of everything, and preparing to move first to Virginia for training then on to The Gambia. Lots of work & emotions! June 4, 1999 – Kenya Mission Trip Preparation It is Friday evening and …
“Too much, too early” is what I’ve been saying about the commercialization of Christmas since I was in high school I think – A long time! 🙂 And one of the unfortunate things about Costa Rica is the adoption of this Christmas Commercialization starting at Halloween. I have not bothered to photograph the many Christmas …
That is the title of the latest book I am reading To Bless the Space Between Us by John Donohue, which is a book of Celtic Blessings. With this collection of blessings and his discussion I see how anyone can be a blessing to me and how I in turn can bless anyone. 🙂 …
In our beautiful country of Costa Rica, Mother’s Day is celebrated each year on August 15th. This national holiday, known locally as Día de la Madre, falls on the same day as the Feast of the Assumption, which is the day that Catholics observe the Virgin Mary’s ascension to Heaven when her earthly life was …
Click the title to read it on Atlantic Monthly website if still there or for posterity and your convenience I have copied the full article below. It is very factual reporting and not nearly as critical of Evangelicals as I am. The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity Support for Trump comes at a high cost …
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Sometimes I think I’m the luckiest guy in the world! Being “Retired in Costa Rica” is simply perfect for me, even if I never left my little casita and garden in Atenas! But on top of that I get to continue exploring one of the most beautiful and ecologically diverse countries in the world! And …