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...
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- Jan 6, 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...
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- Aug 21, 2019
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...
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- May 27, 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...
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- May 4, 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...
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- Jul 17, 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...
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- Jul 8, 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...
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- Jul 2, 2016
Day 17: Wakiso, Nansana
Soapy water and a plastic cut-out make for a great ice breaker. Today was a day like no other as we were given a rare opportunity to...
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- Jun 29, 2016
Day 14: Local Zoo
The very real struggles of life and of simply being human do not end when half a world away. The now familiar sound of roosters welcoming...
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- Jun 25, 2016
Day 10: Jinja, Uganda
This is the moment where the arduous effort to be here pays off. Right now. Coming down from the inexplicable high of rafting the Nile...
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- Jun 17, 2016
Day 2: The Farm
Looking out from one of many vantage points I sit in wonderment. Agriculture is only a very minute portion of the land found on the farm....
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- Jun 14, 2016
Hello Uganda!
What an incredible setting, Uganda is a country seemingly and sporadically placed within a once-forest. A goat cries in the distance...
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