My mother died seven days before the 2010 earthquake in Chile, at 100 years of age. It was February 20, 2010. I learned about her death when the nursing home where she was at called my home phone, and my friend Karelin answered. They told her the news while I was flying from Texas to […]
My mother had natural, spontaneous abortions twice before I was conceived. It had been a period of 11 years since they were married in 1931, and they still could not have a baby. So, my parents prayed to the Virgin of Lourdes about having a child. I was born on February 11, 1942 the same […]
Filomena was concerned and worried. Many month had gone by without knowing anything about Antonio. After he has been sent to Peru, it had been difficult to communicate with him. Letters would take up to two or three month to reach him, and after his experience with the “heaven hunger” creatures in the mountains, Antonio […]
In 1985, I was hired by UBS (United Bible Societies) to start computerizing the translation projects sponsored by the organization. To do this, it was necessary to get all the training I could. In 1986 after a lot of research for the right way to start, I went to North Carolina to learn the software […]
This time I was sent to a meeting in Guatemala held by translation consultants. The meeting was going to take place at a church under construction and the pastor was going to be our host. Representatives of several native speakers were coming to learn more about translating the Bible into their languages. One of the […]
After a computer workshop given for several translators and coordinators in Asuncion, Paraguay, one of them, from England, approached me with a big concern. He was working in the North of Argentina. He had to cross the border between Paraguay and Argentina and take a bus to his home several hundred kilometers away. We had […]
The translation project I went to visit was in Yucatan, Mexico. They were facing an orthography change in the language, and they needed a faster and different software to do consistent changes across each Bible chapter. With me was my friend in charge of computers at the Mexico Bible Society. After arriving at the house […]
This time my mission was to deliver a big computer monitor to a Bible Society where I was also to do some training in text analysis and typesetting. I had packed the monitor very carefully, but it was still very obvious that it was a gigantic monitor. This was many years before flat, light screens […]
Back at the office from Zimbabwe, I was asked to go install a computer and a word processor at the home of a very prominent consultant. He had bought a computer but he needed to install a 5.2” disk drive and more memory. While I put the computer together (a desktop with the 5.2 floppy […]
It was a slow process, but all the handwritten or typewritten translation projects of New Testaments and/or complete Bibles had to be rekeyed into computers. The organization I worked with had heeded the advice of a “computer savvy” pastor in New York and bought Texas Instrument computers for the office. I also was told to […]
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