Growth is something you expect plants to do, think about it, next year you expect that sapling tree in your front yard to be taller, bigger, more robust. I remember when I…
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Contrary Bits
I went to the beach…for 5 days. I’ve not much to show for it but some random tan lines and the sand that clings to my scalp. I find multi-tasking downright impossible…
Khmer Life
This week is Pchum Ben, a Khmer holiday honoring the ancestors, and we’ve got the whole week off! How lucky am I that right after I arrive there is a long holiday?!…
Kampot, Cambodia
I spent my first weekend in Cambodia in a small town tucked along side the sleepy Kampot river. Our morning alarm clock was the steady chug of fishing boat motors as they…
Cowboy Country CA
This is my final post from Canyon Country California (or really i’m posting this sitting in a little cafe in the heart of Phnom Penh, but Shhh don’t tell anyone!). I’ve had…
Gifts
Over the past few months here in the States, I’ve been steeling myself for settling down and getting old and boring….But plans have a funny way of changing and gifts come…
Cali Light
The evening light out here in California horse country is downright stunning, gives me a ridiculously twitchy trigger finger. 😉 Thus begins a new adventure, this time with a little less…
Giving Up the Ghost
giving up the ghost 1. to stop trying to do something because you know that you will not succeed. 2. (intransitive, idiomatic) to cease clinging to life. 3. to…
Death will Grow my Jasmine…
And now that death will grow my jasmine, I find it soothing I’m afraid -The Tallest Man on Earth There are so many things in my life that…
Summertime
The summer months are upon me and they are full of beautiful things I love: chubby baby hugs, doggy kisses, riding horses in the Mojave desert, long steamy runs, camping, stretching out…
New Orleans
Life should be just one big adventure whether you’re in the African bush or roadtripping across the US of A. We hit New Orleans late in the evening and took a stroll…
A Return Home
If anything was to give me culture shock it would be flying from the remote village of Humjibre, Ghana to New York, NY. I wont lie, a secret part of me was…
W. Africa
“Yebeshia Africa” is Seshwi for “I will return.” Someday, I will go back to that continent, but for now I’m back to Americanland for a little TLC and to see my family…
Planting a Seed
April 23, 2012 for G.H.E.I. See original post here. For the past 3 years, the GHEI Health team has motivated the youth in Humjibre to become involved in their hand washing program…