I've wanted to start a blog for a few months, and this seemed like a good time to get it going - January 1, 2007! Hopefully I will figure out how to make this work - the technical aspects aren't crystal clear to me yet. Maybe more important is that I have something worthwhile to say. So here goes.

Today while on the treadmill, I watched, "Wah-Wah", which is one of those strange films Steve shakes his head over when he sees them in the Blockbuster que, or worse, sitting on the table. One of these days, he'll figure out how to remove them from the que, and then we will have real trouble. Anyway, "Wah-Wah" is about a British family living in Swaziland in the 1960's, based on a true story. One of the reasons I liked the movie is that I imagine myself living in that setting - and I always like to imagine living somewhere else. Even if it's only Tucson. (Last night I spent about an hour looking at houses for sale in Tucson ....) You'll have to rent the movie if you want to know what "wah-wah" refers to - pretty interesting and more fun for you to see the movie than for me to explain it.

Speaking of living other places, I read a short article in a recent Focus on the Family publication about a family with 4 young children who moved to Langfang, China, which is about an hour from Beijing. The parents go there to work at an orphanage for disabled children, and the article is mainly about a badly burned baby boy who is found in a field shortly after their arrival, and how they fight for his survival and nurturance back to health. I don't know if this is the same orphanage, but it's also in Langfang, and looks pretty amazing: http://www.philiphayden.org/langfang.htm. And here's an NPR article: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427329. Doesn't it make you want to move to China?