Adventures in Traveling the World
It was 2008 and I didn’t know it at the time but this is when the wanderlust began. It started with a phone call, a call I almost didn’t pick up. After all, I have a house full of guests, the number was not familiar and I was tired of spam calls but was ready to say, “Please, take me off your call list.”...
The Blessed Seelos Catholic Church Restoration in New Orleans, Louisiana – June 2006 Blessed Francis X. Seelos Catholic Church on 3053 Dauphine Street is located in the Upper Ninth Ward and is above sea-level. Opening in 1865, the church had a fire in 2003 and was under construction when Katrina hit. The winds of Katrina ripped off the roof and hours of rain poured...
I went back to Bay St. Louis three more times, once with my husband. It forever changed my perspective on my “stuff”. It’s just stuff. My experiences helped me to appreciate every day but most importantly it helped me value people. I remember Bridget from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi visiting us in Seattle just smiling, saying, “Hi” to everyone she met. As an upbeat,...
Katrina hit land on August 29, 2005, at 6:00 am and lasted 10 hours with winds up to 174 miles an hour. The entire 60-mile coastline of Mississippi was obliterated. The First Presbyterian Church (FPC) on 114 Ulman Avenue was spared from floodwaters because it sat just inches higher than the surrounding area. It was like an oasis for relief. Pastor Richard Jones said,...
I’m starting with a story I heard with our four small children sitting beside me at church. A Wycliffe Bible translator from Australia was telling us a gripping story of finding just the right word to interpret a term in the Bible. I’m sorry to say, I can’t remember the word he was trying to interpret nor the term he found but I do...