Inigo Montoya said it best. I hate waiting. Which is odd, really, because our whole modern life is built around providing us with “down time.” We have developed so much technology meant to stream line our life and give us more free time. Yet when faced with this mythical free time, most of us, myself…
Author: honeydemcmaho
Wife, mother, blogger, and perpetual student of the world's classroom. I live in Thailand with my husband and our three kids, working with a non-profit to empower families to stay together through education and employment. I spend most days attempting to maintain order in our home, while rearing three young people to be responsible, kind and intelligent human beings. We write about our experiences for the enjoyment and encouragement of others on our blog diythegoodlife.com.
Anger as a Starting Point
I concluded my last post, a book review of Undaunted, the story of a Karen family escaping the violence of the Burmese army, with a quote that included the sentence, “I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, I want you to feel angry, and I want you to do something about it….
Book Review: Undaunted
As today dawns in the U.S., our friends in America look forward to a day celebrating the freedom of our nation. I thought this would be an appropriate day to celebrate a book that I recently read about another small nation’s fight for freedom from the absolute despotism of a tyrannical government. As the title…
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