For many hours each day as we volunteers dug holes for the posts and bent rebar for the bracing of the first elementary school in Las Minitas, Lionel was there. I think he came to see what we were doing, every day. Sometimes he and other kids woul…
Ah, good times. Trip down Tuesday's memory lane. Every day is memory lane on the road. It's amazing how moments - seemingly insignificant, have you remember things you had forgotten. Today it was my host sister from years ago in Germany sa…
I'm proud to announce that 585 Magazine [https://www.585mag.com] has featured a first-person essay by me about the experience of building the preschool in Nicaragua. Go The Friends Project [https://www.thefriendsproject.org]! If you are new to…
Today, this is going up as a reminder of the power of everyday people — us, them, here, there, and way out there. This is your English class in Las Minitas, that farmers and their families have sought for several years and we as The Friends Projec…
August 3, 2014 This is your English class. And THIS is really your English class. We have FUN when we learn a new language. The Friends Project rocks! [www.thefriendsproject.org] Every Sunday and Monday, Javier, Alonso, Cristian and the other…
As you know, on this journey of mine we are highlighting everyday people who make a difference. They are out there; we just don't hear about them ... like Nicholas, in Las Minitas, Nicaragua. Through The Friends Project [www.thefriendsproject.…
My final trip up to Las Minitas, to hang out with the kids in the new preschool. Marisela was helping them with creativity and, likely, some control, because they needed some help tracing their hands to make pictures. she's awesome with the kid…
I finally understand those country songs about riding around in the pick-up in the sticks ... Some of my best times have been riding around in this "Gift of God" or on top of it, or where we got to when we turned off the motor. I've…
It's my final day in El Sauce before I take off for Peru and Bolivia, and I think EVERY friend of mine from Las Minitas from the cofee and tourism cooperatives is in town. Even the ones I never see. Alcides and Nicholas, and then Emiliano and…
