The Peifer Chronicles
  • Introduction
  • A Shockingly Unexpected Empathy for Supermodels/ Five Days in Kenya
    November 25, 2007
  • Sowing, Failures, CNN/Yale and Deep Fried Latte: Four Months in America
    November 1, 2007
  • 31 Days and 7000 miles; Two months in America
    September 12, 2007
  • The Last Walk Up Together
    July 15, 2007
  • Are you Hispanic? Two Weeks Hitchhiking Across Canada and America
    June 24, 2007
  • The Whole Picture
    May 29, 2007
  • The Power of A
    May 13, 2007
  • I Have Never Gone to Class on a Wooden Floor Before
    May 5, 2007
  • Two Pencils and One Pen: Rewards in Kenya
    April 8, 2007
  • Milking a Camel is Just Like You Might Think it Would Be: The Interim Trip
    March 25, 2007
  • Two Cousins and a Grandfather; Mornings with Addie
    Feb 26, 2007
  • The Saddest Cry
    Feb 9, 2007
  • Are You Menopausal? Adventures in Giving Blood
    Jan 29, 2007
  • Snow Chains in Africa: Adventures in Driving
    Jan 18, 2007
  • Honk if you love Jesus/Adventures in Egypt
    Dec 20, 2006
  • The Cost of Success
    Dec 3, 2006
  • The Shelf Life of Skipping
    Nov 3, 2006
  • Between a Nun and a Nigerian; Adventures in America
    Oct 15, 2006
  • Crazy prayers
    Sep 30, 2006
  • I Never Had a Dream So Big
    Sep 24, 2006
  • The Beginning and the End
    Aug 30, 2006
  • 21 Years and Four Months: All Things Become New
    Aug 13, 2006
  • And These Are the Days of the Harvest
    Jul 15, 2006
  • It makes me want to try
    Jun 26, 2006
  • Ultimate Choo Makeover
    Jun 5, 2006
  • Great Moments in Strategic Planning: 19 Days in America
    May 18, 2006
  • Michael Update
    6 April 2006
  • Road trip to Uganda
    1 April 2006
  • The Five Most Frightening Words a Father of Four Year Old Twins Can Hear
    29 March 2006
  • Sometimes, it just takes a little rain
    14 March 2006
  • Fast Update
    5 March 2006
  • The Dying of the Light/ A Death in the Family
    26 February 2006
  • Michael's Update
    5 February 2006
  • The potato crop has failed
    22 January 2006
  • When it hits you and won’t let you go
    23 December 2005
  • Merry Christmas!
    12 December 2005
  • Update on Michael
    15 November 2005
  • He didn’t know what it meant to be an orphan
    7 November 2005
  • The Call to the Battle
    4 October, 2005
  • When African Realities Meet American Sensibilities—NancyÂ’s Perspective
    20 September, 2005
  • No, it is a Prostrate; Adventures in Kenyan Surgery
    8 September, 2005
  • The Gift of Pain
    28 August, 2005
  • Achieving Success through Failure: A Year in America
    7 August, 2005
  • Didn’t you used to be Steve Peifer? Adventures in Conferences and Conventions
    4 July, 2005
  • Guaranteed Two Phrases NEVER before uttered in the same sentence
    28 May, 2005
  • The End of a Dream and the Birth of Hope
    17 May, 2005
  • The Ultimate Sacrifice
    29 April, 2005
  • I've Heard worse: Enthralling audiences across America
    8 April, 2005
  • So! Been eating, have you? Six Months in America
    24 Feb, 2005
  • Ain’t them cute: the twins conquer America 
  • 20 Oct, 2004
  • Will I Still be Three in America? The Twins Contemplate the Journey to America
    12 Jul, 2004
  • You Have Become an African Man
    26 Jun, 2004
  • Why I Like Momma Better; the Daughter Reveals the Tragic Secret
    18 Jun, 2004
  • Right Hand Fork, Left Hand Knife: Fine Dining in the Eighth Grade
    1 Jun, 2004
  • The Power and the Glory
    14 May, 2004
  • Son of 'It's not for me, it's for my mother'
    27 Apr, 2004
  • And I Don’t NEED Sun Screen!
    7 Apr, 2004
  • Great Moments in Bad Acting: The Eighth Grade Attacks a Play
    12 Mar, 2004
  • Love vs. Inhaling Helium: Valentines Day for the Eighth Grade Guys
    4 Mar, 2004
  • It will be better for them
    15 Feb, 2004
  • More Cross-Cultural than Ostrich Fajitas
    21 Jan, 2004
  • They Got One?
    11 Jan, 2004
  • Merry Christmas from the Piefers
    20 Dec, 2003
  • You Can't Leave Until It's Clean; A New Revelation of Eternity
    3 Dec, 2003
  • It Not Working
    8 Nov, 2003
  • Underwearing: My reluctant love affair with the hygiene impaired
    24 Oct, 2003
  • Hawaii
    11 Oct, 2003
  • Contratulations! You are officially declared an epidemic!
    20 Sept, 2003
  • That will never happen to me: Fast Drying Underwear in three weeks of America
    29 Aug, 2003
  • A Chance for Change Part II: A Way Out
    13 Jul, 2003
  • Fasting and Lean-To’s: Twins Turn Two
    8 Jul, 2003
  • The Glory and the Folly
    20 Jun, 2003
  • Teenager Revolutionizes Diaper Changing Technology
    June 8, 2003
  • You are not young; Celebrating birthdays in Kenya
    May 30, 2003
  • Teaching Formal Dining Etiquette to 8th Grade Guys: Mission Impossible
    May 24, 2003
  • In Africa, do NOT touch the white man's radio
    April 25, 2003
  • It is a two-stroke penalty if you hit the warthog
    April 7, 2003
  • The power of one good man
    March 30, 2003
  • They Pled Their Own Case
    March 11, 2003
  • In Their Eyes and Feet
    March 2, 2003
  • I'm more afraid of the chocolate milk
    February 18, 2003
  • The Greatest Fear
    February 8, 2003
  • I have unwittingly become a member of the communist party
    January 31, 2003
  • Asst
    January 25, 2003
  • No, the Black one
    January 20, 2003
  • You have saved us from the choice
    December 27, 2002
  • Hitting Crocodiles on the Head/Vacations in Africa
    December 17, 2002
  • Unhappy Coincidence
    December 1, 2002
  • Eggactly My Point
    November 19, 2002
  • Oh, it's ok; I've been poisoned before
    November 6, 2002
  • Baby Break Out!
    October 31, 2002
  • A Kiss is Still a Kiss (Giraffes excepted)
    October 18, 2002
  • Feet Greetings
    October 9, 2002
  • Wheelchairs aren't funny; it just SEEMED that way
    September 23, 2002
  • Africa is whiter than Indiana
    September 8, 2002
  • We're not even in the race
    September 3, 2002
  • Tea Party Girl
    August 28, 2002
  • I've got to go tie the goat
    July 28, 2002
  • You are my favorite student
    July 16, 2002
  • Broken Cheerios Need Not Apply: The Twins Turn One
    July 7, 2002
  • It is very nice to eat sitting down
    July 1, 2002
  • That man has a bag of frozen peas on his shoulder
    June 18, 2002
  • Me and Bill: Shakespeare in Africa
    May 28, 2002
  • It's hard to be a Nazi in a Chihuahua t-shirt
    May 20, 2002
  • When you have to explain a joke, it must REALLY stink
    May 9, 2002
  • Sacrificing Myself for Others: Nobility in Action
    May 4, 2002
  • White Sand and Black Bottoms
    April 25, 2002
  • A Chance for Change
    April 21, 2002
  • Energizer Wedding
    April 7, 2002
  • Kow-Jabe!
    March 31, 2002
  • Name the Cow and Win a Prize!
    March 21, 2002
  • Irregular Verbs or How to Disgust and Educate
    March 7, 2002
  • Much More Blessing Than Sacrifice
    March 4, 2002
  • This the expanded version of the Peifer Family
    February 14,2002
  • Up Mount Kenya
    February 13, 2002
  • Diaper Lotto
    January 13, 2002
  • Battles, Wars, and Oiling Babies
    January 6, 2002
  • Always follow a schmuck
    December 30, 2001
  • They are here!
    December 23, 2001
  • Squatting Through Northern Kenya
    December 19, 2001
  • The Road to Katie and Casey
    December 3, 2001
  • Dorm Mice
    November 18, 2001
  • Bureaucratic Safari
    November 11, 2001
  • Where is the most embarrassing place you have ever had an itch?
    November 4, 2001
  • random thoughts and cultural anecdotes
    October 31,2001
  • Towel Bingo
    October 29, 2001
  • Habari zenu?
    October 27, 2001
  • Wood Surfing
    October 21, 2001
  • The Road Home
    October 17,2001
  • You are one of us
    October 7, 2001
  • Subordinating Conjunctions
    September 30,2001
  • From Nan
    September 27, 2001
  • What is this `Zoom'?
    September 23, 2001
  • baboon etiquitteSeptember 8, 2001

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