Everybody Needs a Little Rest

Everybody Needs a Little Rest

Can you imagine how tired someone with over 60 years of age would be, after 24 years of providing care for as many as 33 special needs orphans in her 3-bedroom apartment? Wow, I know that is a lot to take in, but that is the case for our friend who leads the special...
Funny Sightings at Airports

Funny Sightings at Airports

I had been traveling for about 30 hours when I saw this ramp going to a jet in India. Perhaps it was my lack of sleep, but I thought this advertisement was really funny.  By the way, I was using an airline called Spice Jet. It makes me wonder where they...
An Impactful Start to a Trip

An Impactful Start to a Trip

After traveling for about 33 hours, on my last trip to India, I was with my friends and we went to a leper colony somewhere a little north of Vishakhapatnam, India. Technically, I am told, the caste system has been removed from the constitution of India–but in...
Raising the Ceiling

Raising the Ceiling

If you think raising the ceiling in a room wouldn’t make much of a difference, you are wrong. When the ceiling was raised during the kitchen remodel at the special needs orphanage Global Partners in Life supports in China, it made a huge difference in the feel and...
The Before Kitchen Space

The Before Kitchen Space

For many projects the beginning comes from the realization that something isn’t working, something was missing, or something could be significantly better. That is true for the remodeling project Global Partners in Life took on for the special needs orphanage in...