Dear Friends and Family, Greetings in this mid-summer time. It is nice to be able to communicate more frequently now by e-mail, and feel more connected with you. This past week we have spent time looking at apartments and homes to rent, and today settled on an apartment in the…

CPT Iraq Team Report, June 17, 2003 The CPT delegation arrived back in Baghdad after spending 2 days in Basrah, southern Iraq. Team members who had been in Basrah before the recent war were shocked by the extent of the damage caused by U.S./UK bombing of the city…

As we played around on the mat with the severely handicapped children, Saturday morning at the orphanage, Amil and Quar-Quar began a game of rolling over and over away from me, calling “Bye, bye, Peggy!” and then “Hi, Peggy!” as they roll back. Repeating this over and over did not seem to make it…