By Barbie Perks — At our home church, a Methodist church, someone introduced the idea of pancake Tuesday as a fund-raising community event which proved immensely popular and successful. The…
By Barbie Perks — Close on 20 years ago, I came across the Blue Christmas concept in a Methodist Women’s magazine that was being published in South Africa. The idea…
By Barbie Perks — Workmanship. One of the challenges about starting over in a new country is finding furniture. The house we are renting is large, and we are not…
By Barbie Perks — African time is a very real thing! In South Africa, when people were often late for appointments, I used to put it down to transport difficulties…
A Reading Life Differently post by Barbie Perks — I’ve been so excited to be writing these entries (See Reading Life Differently Part One, Two & Three), I’m hoping that…
By Barbie Perks — I am starting to settle in more from my last post, “Reading Life Differently In the Unknown.” Settling in has been a bit like when we…
