Yes – I know a long silence. I have returned from Kampala where I spent almost a week organizing PC headquarters after attending a Train-the-Trainer workshop. Arranged the Country Director’s Office, Reception and the PCV lounge, where volunteers do research, have access to computers, generally hang-out when they’re here for medical or anything administrative. … Read more
Hi folks – Happy Mother’s Day! Sitting in a web-cafe in Kampala and have – at long last – been able to get sufficient internet connectivity to upload some new pictures. These are of the Gulu house, accessed through this heavy gate, which is locked at night. I know some of you are picturing me … Read more
Aaaaah – rain AND real Mexican food. Life is sometimes good in Uganda. Tonight several of us were invited to dinner by an ex-PCV, returned as a USAID employee. We suggested our version of Mexican food: you know beans cooked by Happy Nest (none of us has enough propane to cook beans for 4 hours), … Read more
No travel log today, unless one considers this a travel log of the nooks-and-crannies of my mind. Could be dangerous going there. Reminds me of a time when a client of mine in West Virginia, living at the edge of an old, flooded quarry invited me to go canoeing with her into the partially flooded … Read more