When we found a spot on the beach we laid out the blanket and just laid there all afternoon joking around and laughing. We even made a sandcastle, I haven’t made one since the kids were little. It was fun acting like we were kids again and letting go of society and expectation. Af...
and a side of sun. This really perked me up. But I still had to deal with the jitters and the actual work of prepping to go. (Hiring a housesitter is great for the cats, but does mean having to prepare the house for a guest along with organizing oneself to be away.) ...
The alternative choice of employment is the tea factory where you will be paid 700 Rwandan Francs for a long full day of picking tea. That’s about 70 pence or around a dollar a day. Like everywhere in the world, the cost of living has gone up substantially in Rwanda and comparative to...
One of the things I miss the most from my youth spent in the South—aside from warm nights, sweet tea, and properly ripened tomatoes—is a good thunderstorm. Although weather had been dry for ten days before my visit, I was lucky enough to enjoy a powerful, if brief, downpour that har...
mostly at every spototherthan the actual intersection. While driving slowly through these 15-mile-an-hour zones, I watch these kids as they meet up in the middle of the street, high-five each other in the middle of the street, hug each other in the middle of the street, shuffle songs...