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Summer 2020: Farming through a Pandemic
Allow me to set the scene - It's February 2020 and I had just officially returned home from the Peace Corps. The world was just learning...
Sep 9, 2020


The Reality of Discomfort
The reality of discomfort is that it helps us grow. There have been, and I anticipate will be, many uncomfortable moments throughout...
Jan 6, 2020


What I Have Come to Know
I stepped into this experience acknowledging a few truths. The most important being that I could be certain of nothing; that despite...
Aug 21, 2019


Welcome Home!
Hot season. A mid-service volunteer shared that he thought hot season was the best time to arrive at site because by that time, Ramadan...
May 27, 2019


See You Soon Kedougou
In a lot of ways today marks an upsetting end and an exciting beginning for every member of my Peace Corps stagier. The beautiful upset...
May 4, 2019


Kili Summit: Uhuru Peak
As if the last few days weren’t enough individually or in combination, the final push to the summit would prove more arduous than I could...
Oct 15, 2018


Kili: 3,950 - 4,000 meters
I consider this to be the most physically and mentally exhausting day of the trip. The fabled Barranco Wall greeted us as we were one of...
Oct 9, 2018


Kili: 3,480 - 4,600 - 3,950 meters
The landscape undergoes another amazing change – it becomes otherworldly. Picture this – we are hiking on greyish sand on a path that...
Oct 3, 2018


Kili: 3,000-3,840 meters
I have never been woken up so softly as on this mountain. “Good morning ladies” we would hear accompanied by the light scratching of our...
Sep 30, 2018


Kili: 1,800-3,000 meters
When we arrived at the gate, we had some time to wait as our group got registered for the hike and we awaited our turn to begin. The...
Sep 25, 2018


Kili: 289 meters
On the plane into Tanzania, we soared over the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro! Greeted in the sky with our first glimpse of this...
Sep 19, 2018


Kili: Prep
Hiking a mountain of this measure along the seven-day Machame route is a task that requires both proper equipment and understanding....
Sep 13, 2018


Mount Ida Summit
Arriving at the far end of Rocky Mountain at 4:30 a.m. was kind of crazy – traversing the all too familiar landscape in the pitch black...
Sep 11, 2018


Flat Top Mountain
Reaching the Peak of Flat Top Mountain in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park was, admittedly, not what I had set out to do that day....
Sep 10, 2017


In Reflection: DAPL
The camp resides in our rear view as our journey comes to a close. The farther we get away from the once-in-a-lifetime experience, the...
Dec 22, 2016


Morning with the Sioux
Cotton candied clouds hung lazily above us with a color so vibrant it must have been painted by the imagination of a child. Fluorescent...
Dec 18, 2016


Sacred Rock: Conflict Zone
At a gas station just outside of Sacred Rock, the burial grounds upon which this mass protest continues, I met Ivan Standing Horse....
Dec 17, 2016


North Dakota Bound
“Let us continue to love one another. We have not lost our voices, so let’s advocate ever more passionately for the causes we believe in....
Dec 16, 2016


Uganda: Incredible
When I arrived to the school, Esther crawled into my lap; it’s the last story time I would spend with her. Connections made were not in...
Jul 16, 2016


Day 23: Katanga, Uganda
This is the story of when I left a piece of my heart in Katanga... The taxi lets us off atop an elevated heap of trash looking out over...
Jul 7, 2016
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