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The Northern Light Extra-October 2026

In the early 1980s my childhood family served as missionaries in the Middle East during a civil war. Usually we were not in the line of fire because the fighting took place down in the city, while we lived up…

Rotten Eggs

The Northern Light Extra-September 2026

Rotten egg is about the worst smell imaginable. And the smell lingers for a long, long time. How do I know? When our family worked in Lebanon, we had chickens that regularly escaped their enclosure on our mission compound. They…

Pigweed

The Northern Light Extra-August 2026

I was strangely pleased when I learned to identify an appropriately-named plant called Pigweed. Unlike thistles, which also grow in my garden, Pigweed thorns can pierce my toughest leather gloves. I prefer to pull Pigweed as soon as it sprouts….

Free To Go

The Northern Light Extra-July 2026

Being stopped by the police in a country where I once lived was something I never got used to. I remember my first encounter at a checkpoint where they randomly stopped people to check papers. When I was waved over,…

Fingers

The Northern Light Extra, June 2026

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