It’s Spring! And time for planting, of course! This is my absolute favorite time of the year! When small seeds put out feelers and roots and cling to the soil of life.…
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Independence Day
Happy birthday Ghana! I was awoken early Tuesday with the sound of beating drums resonating from the village and the pitter patter of running feet and excited voices. Today was a big…
A Place to Call Home
Introducing the lovely children of Humjibre, Western Ghana, and my new home for the next year! After lugging all that I own in the world (aside from a few boxes of books…
Goodbye Chiang Mai
Farewell Chiang Mai! I’m leaving some of my favorite people in the world behind in that great little city. These past two weeks leading up to my continent hop to Africa have…
Photography Workshop
Last week we gave the neighborhood Burmese refugee and hill tribes children cameras and sent them home with the assignment to tell the story of their life in photographs. A big project…
Young Lions
On Thursday, we held our weekly Young Lions workshop with the neighborhood refugee and hill tribe kids. We gave them each a film camera to take home for a week of snapping…
Wild Flower Home
Introducing the beautiful mammas at Wildflower Home! Each week we head 30mins out of Chiang Mai, down a long pot-holed road (that’s usually flooded during the rainy season) to spend some lovely…
Hope Home
As Art Director and Volunteer Coordinator at ARI, I get the wonderful opportunity to work with loads of volunteers coming to us from all over the world. Each one brings with them…
Floating Village
Here are more photos from the crazy weekend at the floating houses. Introducing the wild ARI crew! 😉
Slice of Heaven
Floating houses, night kayaking, bonfires, grilled bananas, learning German lullabies and how to do grind dance moves, laughing so hard our tummies hurt and sleeping beneath the stars…this was by far a…
Floating Houses
On one fine Friday afternoon, a crew of us loaded up our wee and smoking motorbikes ans hit the road to our weekend adventure at the Floating Houses. 30minutes into a 1hr+…
Wat Pa Pao
I would like to apologize for all you waiting with baited breath for my side of the Minge Self Portrait Challenge. There is this rule of threes for all failures and successes…
Mit Meon Dek: Children’s Home
On Friday, we visited a home for children with disabilities in Chiang Mai. Our volunteers decided to do a music workshop that consisted of decorating small instruments made out of paper cups…
Movement
So I’ve had this fascination with movement lately. There is just something I love about the unpredictability of long time exposures and human movement. When you look at the back of your…
Doi Suthep
One fine Saturday, I hopped on the back of a motorbike and was transported up a windy mountain road to the most beautiful mountain top temple in Chiang Mai. So much blinding…