Quake Fairy!
I was going to write again about settling in to my new routine, except that the past 48 hours haven’t been very routine. Yesterday morning, I had no idea I’d […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
And now for something completely different…
Peace and quiet. Really. Our endless summer reluctantly petering out as the rains finally came. Amazing how late it’s stayed warm – played havoc with the garden, I can tell […]
Unexpected
The framing of our lives can change so quickly. Sometimes you know it’s coming, like when you’re flying into West Africa. One moment you’re at the door of your comfy, […]
The Count
[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 […]
Election Day
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 […]
As ready as we can be
[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 […]
About last night…
[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 […]
The Lay of the Land
[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 […]
Mongbain Village
[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 […]
Morning
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 […]
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