IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
Pictures!
After spending way too many hours over the weekend messing with my trip pictures, I finally have them loaded onto Flickr. (Well, actually I only loaded about a quarter of them, and yet there are probably still too many of them for anyone other than my photo-obsessed...
Missing
Pharmin Khatun, age 16, missing. Manila Purkite, age 14, missing. Raksha Khatun, age 11, missing. Pages and pages of names. Listed under the current status for most of them was one word - “missing”. Only one or two on each page said “restore” or “rescue”.Each name...
The hardest night
After hours of bumping along on narrow rough roads raised high about the flood plains, careening wildly past rickshaws and pedestrians and trucks and bicycle transport vehicles carrying everything from cages of chickens to bamboo poles stretching far ahead of the...
I’m a big loser
But a big winner too! With my 15 pound loss since Christmas, I'm the winner of our office's "Biggest Loser" competition. I now have $100 to spend on new Spring clothes to fit the slimmer me. Yippee!
Faces
(Just a taste of things to come)
Home again, home again, jiggity jog
In case you're still popping in to this rather quiet space now and then and you're wondering if perhaps I fell off the face of the earth, don't worry, I'm still alive. I made it back home from India in the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday. But I was only home long...
Thirteen things I don’t want to forget
Is it Thursday today? I'm really not sure, but in case it is, here are thirteen things I don't want to forget about this trip.1. The little girl in Barguna who followed me around grinning and reciting her new English words "We are all connected."2. The giggling little...
Battered but not broken
On November 15, these children and their families lived through Cyclone Sidr. Winds of up to 250 kilometres and a wall of water about thirty feet high wiped out their homes, their livestock, their food, their fishing boats, and in some cases, their family members. The...
Arrived!
We made it to Dhaka, Bangladesh! Most of the little hurdles have been crossed succesfully. We still don't know if we'll get into India, but I'll leave that worry for another day.The people of Bangladesh have been incredibly hospitable and gracious. We have been warmly...
Catch ya on the flip side
I'm going to Bangladesh. There are still some fairly major hurdles to cross, but I'm going. In the meantime, though, I've gotta go play My Little Pony, the board game, with Maddie. She's been attached to my hip all morning - trying to get the most Mommy time she can.I...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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