Hi all!

This journal is just too hard to make aesthetically pleasing and posting photos has become even more difficult lately sans inscription...soooo I am moving on and out.  New website:  http://charlarbol.wordpress.com.

I will see you there, I hope!

love,
me

Nothing like whale watching with... 
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The card tower continues to be reinforced by the steel frame of real-life challenges and my own dumb mistakes ( Read more... )

( Explosive! )

( All credit to Jonathan S. )

As I think I have mentioned, these 12th graders were my not-so-holy little terrors in the 8th grade.  This is also the first time I have taken students to the turtle camp and not had a close friend along for the ride with whom I felt I could vent/pray/laugh/weep easily.  We were taking a family with small children along.  My chaperones were older ( Read more... )

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"Too many of us want to see our way through before starting new enterprises.  If we could and did, from whence would come the development of our Christian graces?  Faith cannot be plucked from our trees like ripe apples.  After the words, 'In the beginning' comes the word, 'God.'  The first step turns the key in God's powerhouse, and it is not only ( Read more... )

I start class tomorrow...Universidad de Guadalajara compentency diplomado (whatever that means...I will let you know).  Starts at 9am and goes until 3pm for ocho Saturdays between now and the end of January 2011 and online stuff too.  Woot.  I am officially in denial.

So as I, instead, mull over the FALL DAY ALL DAY party and all of the lovely ( Read more... )

Mary Ellen just sent this picture from one of our walks down to the newspaper office.


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