Many years ago, I read The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson. It was about Anybody who had a dream that absolutely compelled him to take action, but the moment he took action, almost everyone that he knew tried to dissuade him from it. And the person that tried the hardest was his mom! That part…
Category: Mission Portugal
There’s just something about a stone house…
I found a stone house online this past week. It’s in a small village somewhere in central Portugal, and since the advertisement was posted recently enough, I have a suspicion that the photographs truly reflect reality. The house is built from granite stone (unlike the picture that I have picked for illustrating this post!) with…
If you don’t ask, you won’t know…
I don’t go to my local police station often, even though it is situated a block from where I currently stay. Like hospitals and courthouses, I find police stations depressing places, filled with people who have had bad things happen to them, are about to have bad things happen to them or are supporters of…
Tessa: at the start of the countdown to a brand-new adventure
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” -Paulo Coelho I saw an interview that one set of ex-pats did on YouTube with another – a man and his wife on his sister and her husband – about moving to Portugal and thought that it would be an…
The Mission Goal Has Moved – Once Again!
After feeling extremely sorry for myself for all of 20 minutes, I started weighing my options: pros and cons of staying versus leaving and the different countries that make sense to me. I wrote earlier about the rudeness of some government employees. That specific country (which I won’t mention here or ever again!) has been…