[Transcribed from my notebook, scribbled out in the dark as it happened] The scene is surreal. Two electric Coleman lanterns dimly illuminate the pair of plankwood benches pushed together in […]

Didn’t get to sleep stupidly late last night, but didn’t get that early bedtime I was hoping for, either. The urgent “Don’t go to sleep until you’ve retrieved the important […]

[Again, a reminder: these posts are all one week old, and I’m putting them up in sequence, roughly corresponding to when they were written, to give a feel for my […]

[Again, a reminder: these posts are all one week old, and I’m putting them up in sequence, roughly corresponding to when they were written, to give a feel for my […]

[Again, a reminder: these posts are all one week old, and I’m putting them up in sequence, roughly corresponding to when they were written, to give a feel for my […]

[Again, a reminder: these posts are all one week old, and I’m putting them up in sequence, roughly corresponding to when they were written, to give a feel for my […]

Ganta – 09 Oct 2011 Morning – it’s hard to muster words for last night. The stifling, airless heat, radiating up from the floor, in from the walls. The plastic […]

photo by Susan Hyde Ganta, 8 Oct 2011 6:30 p.m, and the storm is coming in. It’s been impossibly – no, insufferably hot since we stepped out into another world. […]

[Back in the states now, but I’m posting notes from last week, while we were in “news embargo” in Liberia] Monrovia – Ganta, Oct 08, 2011 Nominal dawn departure has […]