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...

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

I stepped into this experience acknowledging a few truths. The most important being that I could be certain of nothing; that despite...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

What an incredible setting, Uganda is a country seemingly and sporadically placed within a once-forest. A goat cries in the distance...