I came across this blog and enjoyed reading a bit this morning... :)
http://melspin.blogspot.com/

I'll have to send her a hello sometime.

Mr. Mongolia at the International Festival!

see Javkhaa in his full regalia on the Regent website! ;) http://www.regent.edu/news_events/?article_id=168&view=full_article

praise God for a wonderful international festival on Saturday. we're thankful everything went well and ... that it's over! ;) (on to FINALS...)

more pics here: http://helsbyonline.com/photo_album.php?setID=72157604318689946
and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25327922@N03/ :)

where i work (skye)

The Regent Center for Entrepreneurship! :)

www.regententrepreneur.org (and our blog is www.kingdomentrepreneur.blogspot.com)

Here's a pic of our staff currently:

Spring is springing here in Virginia--we had a few cooler days earlier this week but i think today it's supposed to be 70 F (that's 21 C for those of you in most of the world). ;)

I'm loving the warm weather... and reminding myself to enjoy it now, while I can, before we move back to Mongolia! (I think we'll still have a couple more springs here before then.)

little things can take a while...

my computer at work was 'reimaged' at the end of last year, and recently i realized that the progam that went along with our digital camera was lost during that process.

i've FINALLY reloaded the program, and downloaded some pretty old pics! ;)

it's been fun to look at them though...

but i wish i'd done it earlier! our camera has been in hibernation mode since our memory has been full for a l-o-n-g time now.

anyways... here are a few samples! ;)

Girls' Sushi Night

A few of us got together the other night to make some sushi... I love this pic of Wonder Woman and the Sushi Sensei. :) Mmm!

Most of us had tea, but there was a little Diet Coke (see below) going around as well. That and the cilantro were bows to the local culture here. ;)

Hi everyone (esp Tseegi--thanks for the happy new year!) :)
We want to wish everyone a wonderful year filled with God's joy and blessings.

Hope y'all had a great Valentine's Day, too! (We made buuz, mmm!)
Take care!
~skye

PS--Add to links: http://www.relevantblog.blogspot.com/

(I'd like to read her book on parenting...)
:)

so much for writing soon...

and i'm afraid i'm not going to satisfy much interest in this post. i've been hearing about BPA and concerns about plastics lately, so wanted to find a place to put a link for some of that info...

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200311/lol5.asp

but i'll try to put a pic up soon (it's a new year's resolution!). :)

Happy New Year!

Wow, it has been THREE months since posting!
I promise to write more soon! :)

a Happy Birthday!! :)

I had a wonderful birthday! We got to spend time with friends on our prayer meeting night (Sunday) and then also on Monday night (suprises engineered by Javkhaa!). :) It was good fun and a great blessing to share the day with special people.

sad news: Madeleine L'Engle

One of my most favorite authors has died. Madeleine L'Engle wrote stories of all kinds, and I've read as much as I could. Though her theology may not have always matched mine, I was often encouraged by her great sensitivity; her characters were heroic and also flawed. They could hurt deeply and yet she gave them hope. Though evil is real and terrible, good is stronger than evil, love is stronger than hate, and every person matters... these are the themes that come to mind as I think of her.

I wish I'd written a letter to her... maybe I'll still write one now. I'll pull out a copy of The Small Rain (her first, I think) and remember her. With thanks and love.

"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." http://madeleinelengle.com/
reference/newberyspeech.htm

From the NY Times: Her deeper thoughts on writing were deliciously mysterious. She believed that experience and knowledge were subservient to the subconscious and perhaps larger, spiritual influences.

...“Why does anybody tell a story?" she once asked, even though she knew the answer. “It does indeed have something to do with faith,” she said, “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

Read more of what the NY Times wrote about her.