Fallujah, Iraq::January 2013

Five of us (Kirk, me, pediatric interventional cardiologist Mary Porisch, pediatric intensivist Minnette Son, and pediatric nurse practitioner Nelia Soares) are en route home from Fallujah, Iraq.  Kirk, Mary, Minnette, pediatric nurse practitioner Molly King, and...

Nepal :: November 2012

  “Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness And his upper rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay And does not give him his wages.  Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house With spacious upper rooms, And cut out its...

Mongolia::September 2012

I (Kim) always write these updates on the way home from our trips.  I didn’t want to write the one I wrote coming home from Fallujah, Iraq (our last trip).  I don’t want to write this one either.  That’s because, for me, this trip was not wrapped up in a tidy little...