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How to Bake Monkey Bread

Posted by on Nov 2, 2008 in Explorer, Observer | 0 comments

How to Bake Monkey Bread

A ridiculous amount of time has been spent baking this week. Breads with and without yeast (with is superior, apparently), plain breads, flavored breads, sweet breads.

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Citizen’s Arrest: Adventures in Bolivian Babysitting

Posted by on Sep 28, 2008 in Explorer, Missionary | 0 comments

Citizen’s Arrest: Adventures in Bolivian Babysitting

7:40am I woke up to an extra­or­di­nar­ily loud “Screech! Chunk! Thud. CRASH!” from Simon Lopez, our busy city street. I run down the stairs to hear “Lorien! Camera!” and my sib­lings yelling, “The van! The van?” The crash was not our van, but instead a drunk dri­ver crash­ing into one of our large metal gates. Juan, the drunk dri­ver, had swept the side of his car into a tree by the road. He was dri­ving so fast that he had enough momen­tum to go for­ward into a lit­tle park­ing lot off the street and swerve hard left. He crossed the raised cement and grass...

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Analysis of Bolivia and How Evo Could *Truly* Win

Posted by on Sep 19, 2008 in Designer, Explorer, Missionary, Observer, Scholar | 3 comments

We heard some fas­ci­nat­ing polit­i­cal and legal analy­sis on cur­rent events from a top-notch spe­cial­ist in Bolivian law. I’m not nam­ing him here sim­ply because I didn’t get his express per­mis­sion to do so. Kindly, deal with it. I’m post­ing the analy­sis, and then we can all go about research­ing it as we wish. Prior to the Ambush in the Pando, Evo expelled almost all of the press. That is a sig­nif­i­cantly con­tribut­ing fac­tor as to why we have so lit­tle vis­i­ble evi­dence and sound accounts of what really happened. Earlier today on a radio...

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Our Status and Crisis Plans

Posted by on Sep 13, 2008 in Explorer, Missionary | 0 comments

Summary: Half of Bolivia is at war, but not our half. We don’t know whether it will spread. Bolivia is fully unpre­dictable. We’re stay­ing for now. Issues: The Anti-Evo region is in vio­lent protest, pos­si­bly even secession. They’re not doing it intel­li­gently — so they have made ene­mies of Brazil and Argentina. MAS (Pro-Evo, sim­plis­ti­cally) is pos­si­bly incit­ing fur­ther violence. Evo might send in mil­i­tary troops. Chavez has stated that if Evo is deposed, he will send in Venezuelan troops. Brazil and Argentina are sid­ing with Evo because the...

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Cochabamba: Our Next Few Days

Posted by on Aug 11, 2008 in Activist, Explorer, Missionary, Observer | 2 comments

Bolivia, frankly, is batty. Is it any won­der I love it so? Yesterday’s elec­tion was a curi­ous affair. The day was quite and calm. The evening, though, was a race of num­bers in the news. Jim Shultz, a polit­i­cal blog­ger (strong left bias) based here in Cochabamba, has a good run-down of the elec­tion num­bers released by the media last night. I’ve not found out how these num­bers that were released were formed. I’m assum­ing exit polls; but while those are more or less reli­able in the States, I see far less cred­i­bil­ity for them here. The polling loca­tion near...

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