Journals

Why write a journal?

I have archived most of the email messages I have sent home, hopefully in a more intelligible form (not to mention, I have corrected spelling errors), and have also included photographs. Following the theft of my computer in July of 2008, I decided to put all of the journals into separate years, though I will not be able to ``unpack" the first journal because all of the files, and all of the photographs are now gone.

I have been encouraged several times to turn all of this into a book - but as yet have not had the courage to approach any publisher about publishing it. I would have to go back and re-edit most of the material, and as it is now it is really a true reflection of my growth as a person and as a Christiian while living in Uganda. For better or worse, this reflects who I am, where I have been and hopefully shows real growth.

• The most current journal is called UgandaJournal5.pdf

• UgandaJournal4.pdf and is from January--December 2009. (Updated January 30, 2009)
• UgandaJournal3.pdf is from July, 2008 through December 2008. (Updated January 13, 2009)
• UgandaJournal2.pdf includes journal entries for January--July of 2008.
• UgandaJournal.pdf is from Nov 2005 through Dec 2007 (147 pages). I began the next journal when this one simply became too large to open.