One of the things I did when I moved to Blue Cord from Karamat (at xanga.com) was to make Blue Cord into a completely academic blog.  Karamat had both academic and personal posts, but I decided to split these into seperate blogs.  After all, not everyone is interested in my personal life (I can’t imagine why that is).

Now that my family and I are heading back to the US to visit churches to raise funds for our missionary work (I am blogging from Riga, Latvia, right now), I have started up the other blog on this site.  It is called Out and About, and it covers personal experiences, reflections on our life and work, and posts about our traveling.  If any of you are interested, I encourage you to check it out.  It will have posts not only from me, but from my wife and son as well.  I hope you enjoy it.