Browsing all posts in June, 2006.
Wells & Water Pumps
The community is in the throws of a large-scale water project. While most people have enough water for household needs very few have sufficient water for agricultural purposes. That and hand-liftng water from a 15 feet well and carrying it a couple hundred meters to a garden discourages most people from the 3 – 4 [...]
Flavors of the month
There’s a great new set of photos on display in the Cambodian Flavors photoset. I wish I could take credit for them, but we had one of SP’s pro photographers, Matt, out here with fancy camera equipment (and a mac computer) who took some great shots of Cambodia and our projects. I thought I’d share [...]
Podcast video
Well, lazy weekend has resulted in our first-ever video podcast. The subject is of course Araella, but if this works we want to do some on our work and life in Cambodia. Podcasts are designed to be small, and in the world of video these are small files. But in the world of internet, the [...]
Happy Birthday
85 Helium Balloons, 30 cupcakes, 2 chocolate ice cream pies, a gallon of lemonade, one quiche, fruit bowl, chips and dip; 15 ankle biter’s and their parents, one sandbox, one playhouse, too many saggy diapers, and a pile of gifts… Happy Second Birthday Araella!
Politeness
With the “terrible two’s” officially just around the corner (Araella’s b-day is June 8th), we feel that just maybe we have it licked. Famous last words? Check it out: “Yeah peess” [i.e. yes please] is a frequent answer to questions and requests are typically concluded with either a verbal “peess” or vigorous chest rubbing which [...]
Police Brutality
Nothing incites the western mind more than images of police brutality; those entrusted with upholding the highest standards of the law who break faith with those to whom they are mandated to protect and serve. Images of riots, beatings, bigotry, and racism flood the mind like TV news reels from humanity’s darker moments in history. [...]
Potty Training: In Less Than One Day!
It’s a book title. Really. How to potty train your child in one day. The author developed this method back in the ‘70’s and did a test study on over 200 children age ranges from 20 months to 4 years of age and all of them with with two exceptions were potty trained within 1 [...]
