After posting my last blog, I got an e-mail requesting permission to use my photos and text on another blog called Toemail. My first response was to get weirded out that some…
This post is part of a themed series inspired by theCameraShy challenge. The back story is here. Week #4: Comfort Our second week in Malawi, the rains started more regularly.…
Last summer, I was approached about child sponsorship by a family of one of my former preschool students. Their girls were so excited that we would be meeting Everyn in…
After last week’s grapple to find a suitable response to the photo challenge theme word, this week was simply child’s play. Week #3: Play Time Malawian kids astound me with…
“If you’re walking on thin ice, you might as well dance.” ~Unknown It is -46°C with the windchill here today. I’m very thankful for the mild weather we have had…
My apologies to all of the e-mail subscribers who got a notification for this post Saturday and arrived here to find an error message. Soon after posting, I realized when…
Week #2: Cold I didn’t expect the challenge to throw me a curveball so soon. But when the theme word is ‘cold’, it’s a little daunting to attempt to apply it…
I have a notebook. It’s full of mindless minutia, slivered shards of Malawi’s stories. Observations. Statistics. Jot notes. Crinkled, dirty pages with scribbles of barely legible detail that would probably…
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs…
Between turkey, in-laws, crumpled wads of wrapping paper, cabbage rolls, returns and all the other chaos of Christmas, we managed to complete another child visit video. This one, from start…
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