Yesterday, I was inspired to clean out all the boxes stored under my bed. Almost everything was thrown in the trash or sent to Goodwill. But I did find a few treasures, including the cd’s with digital copies of photos I took back in 2003 and early 2004! These included photos from my trip to …
Not quite a decade ago, I volunteered for the AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) in Uganda. Fresh out of university with Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Sociology, I had absolutely nothing to offer TASO except for a year-long commitment and a willingness to learn, and they were lovely enough to take me in.* TASO is located …
I took my cue from Ali for my Sunday Scribbling post this week by deciding to look back at one of the only prolific journals I’ve kept in my life — the three months I was living and working in a small, remote town in Sierra Leone. It was in between my first and second …