Sanibonani!

Today is Saturday.   I wake up at six, pleased to have slept in.   Yesterday was exhausting at the clinic.   It was ARV day, and Doctors...

I’ve been thinking a lot about dependence versus aid lately.   I’m sure there are dozens if not hundreds of people who make a decent liv...

A Day in the Life… I wake up at 5:30…Whether it was the roosters, the dogs, or the booming bass of bhuti’s African house music, I don...

I wasn’t going to have a dog in Peace Corps.   I came to that conclusion some six months before I even knew what country I was being sen...

The following snippets took place both at my permanent site and training one, so ignore the fact that time jumps around a bit…. I wou...

With only a few days until swearing-in, I decided it was time for another update.   Even if I haven’t had enough internet access to resp...

Last night I asked my Gogo (host grandmother) to tell me a traditional Swazi story that she grew up hearing.   The tale that went like thi...