Gary and Darrel are in the Ukraine this weekend to bring back the Hathcock family’s things from their former place of service. Gary called earlier to say they hadn’t made it through the mountains yet so are going to spend the night and do that part of the driving in the morning. He sent me a text…

A few weeks back the Thai Red Cross held their annual Diplomatic Fair in which embassies and consulates in Bangkok sell items imported duty-free from their home countries, with the proceeds going to the Red Cross. Most of my purchases were wines imported by the US embassy, offered at about a 30% di…

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I’ll say it right now and get it out of the way: I like history. I’m the kid in history class who yells at other kids to shut up because I can’t hear the teacher drone on about the Battle of Gettysburg or the main causes for WWI. A lot of times, I think, people hate history because it seems like it’…

the 22-year-old winner, Reka UrbanLast week, Hungary held a beauty pageant with a twist. All of the contestants were required to have undergone plastic surgery! You can read about this "beauty" pageant here. I put the word beauty in quotation marks because I have always considered beauty pageants to…