So many abandoned. So many orphaned. Tiny lost faces A promising future in an emerging country—Interrupted. She found her first one when she was just a young unmarried woman. In a [Read more...]
Some days are for forgetting. Some are for living to the hilt. Some are for searing your memory with remarkable souls that make you want to be better. Claudine was one I was honored to [Read more...]
I can feel it in my right shoulder Never the left. That tightness, that tension, The slow burn. Slowly, slowly building day after day, a fierce grip of anxiety. It always [Read more...]
She seemed older than me, but maybe she wasn’t. I can’t tell how old people are anymore. It was probably her impressive list of accomplishments that made her seem so. And my lack [Read more...]
The first time I saw the tree, I was immediately drawn to the color. Bright red blooms flaunting. Then I did a double take. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Towering over my head, ten feet tall, [Read more...]
We arrived on a Sunday and I was amazed that the streets were almost totally devoid of traffic. I asked Jamie about the lack of cars. She said it was partially because it was Sunday, but also [Read more...]
The first time I saw them, I had to laugh. Men in business suits and women in dresses and high heels--riding on the back of a motorbike. Few people have cars in Rwanda and motorbikes are [Read more...]
The tiny hunter green SUV was our transport for the week. A nod to home and her roots was the very large magnetic sign that proudly yelled “OU.” One of the regular visitors from the [Read more...]
The gross betrayal of the Tutsi’s in the 1994 Genocide was incomprehensible. The Hutu’s killed the President of Rwanda and ordered all Tutsi’s to be executed. Hundreds of thousands died. Marriages [Read more...]
The bad news that started us out—a cancelled flight and re-route to Istanbul, Turkey—landed with us. (See March 21, 2015 blog post.) We finally arrived in Kilgali, Rwanda, Sunday morning instead of [Read more...]