By Ernest Dempsey Tue January 24, 2023 Loving Healing Press author Nancy Wesson has won the 2022 Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award Winner for her book I Miss the Rain in Africa. Initiated in 1992, the Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award has been presented annually to a Peace Corps Volunteer or staff member, … Read more
Modern History Press is proud to announce that its title I Miss the Rain in Africa: Peace Corps as a Third Act by Nancy Daniel Wesson has become a Nautilus Award Winner. I Miss the Rain in Africa won the 2022 Silver Nautilus Award in the category of World-Cultures’ Transformational Growth & Development. The category, … Read more
Re-printed from PeaceCorps.gov stories November 3, 2021 By Nancy Wesson Nov. 3, 2021 When I talk about my Peace Corps experience, people are often surprised to learn I entered at the age of 64. When most of my friends were planning for retirement, I was packing water purifiers, solar chargers, and a French press to … Read more
Last month I was honored to be invited to be a guest of Donna Seebo, Delphi Vision Broadcasting, on her international podcast program, Warriors for Peace, now its 7th year. “The program focuses on interviews with veterans and those individuals who are dedicated to making this world a more balanced, sustaining environment that supports the … Read more
Hi all, In case you missed it otherwise – I’m very excited to announce the release of my book, I Miss the Rain in Africa: peace Corps as a Third Act! It’s been an interesting process writing and rewriting and rewriting and letting the muse take over when I really thought the book was finished. … Read more
Boys eagerly awaiting a meal I know you have other things going on in your lives and other causes, but this evolving story is one worth telling, not only as a thank you for those of you who have so generously contributed to the GoFundMe campaign to feed the homeless children in Gulu, and to … Read more
In this season of giving, many of us are looking for different ways to honor the spirit of the season and the sentiments of birth, hope and illumination – bringing light to our lives and the lives of others. Certainly there are many ways to do this depending on beliefs and spiritual path, one’s … Read more
Hello everyone – me again…. rambling on about what is turning into an epic road trip with my shoebox-size Honda FIT, named Hissy (as in – “she threw a hissy fit”) named because my friend Karla-of-the-U-Haul-trip challenged me to name it and that seemed to fit, no pun intended. The day before I left, this … Read more
As much as adapting to Uganda and specifically Gulu, was an adventure and a challenge, re-entry is offering equal opportunities for surprise, fury, self-analysis, befuddlement and feeling out-of-sync. It doesn’t provide the sucking-in-of-breath kind of surprises that Africa offers but there’s been plenty of gasping and shock at what I’ve forgotten or all that’s changed … Read more
After twenty hours of travel and 48 hours without sleep, I have landed in what feels like a parallel universe. It looks like a place I remember: there are people, cars, paved roads – places I recall. I’m supposed to know this place, but it feels alien. Describing this sense of disconnected-ness, a friend related … Read more