I’m researching a new work of Young Adult fiction this summer (I tapped out of both Facebook and Instagram to provide myself with space to focus on this). Years ago, I wrote a Young Adult […]
Tag: Peace Corps
Senior Corps?
So I’m Traveling at the Speed of Bike home from a doctor’s office and Home Depot yesterday, la la la, with my handlebar tassels and lemongrass plants blowing in the wind, and I’m wondering the […]
Hope for the flowers (and all of us)
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” Seeing this beauty in my garden yesterday gave me hope and renewed faith in humanity. The Black Lives Matter movement is changing […]
A Departure from the Plan
I am a Peace Corps Invitee, originally scheduled to depart for Peace Corps Uganda on June 4, 2020 (a week from tomorrow). Additionally, I am part of the roughly 4% of Peace Corps Volunteers who […]
Allow. Don’t Ask How. UPDATED
With a little over a week until I was supposed to be united with my Peace Corps Uganda 2020 cohort and my government-issued passport prior to our flight to Entebbe International, I finished the essay […]
Step by step
In case you saw me (in person or on Instagram) and were wondering what the hell I was doing with the big jugs — it’s been 3 months today of carrying water a mile up […]
Enough
And so, week 3 of online college, work-at-home, and social distancing ends. Our home life is a bit of a ballet, each of us flowing from room to room throughout the day, giving each other […]
Peace in the garden
I am back in my garden most days now. It’s my shelter-in-place place during the coronavirus crisis, and a place of peace for me. It’s also where I’ve been rejuvenating my food-growing efforts since I […]
Traveling at the Speed of Bike 