NOT Just a Bug

I sat on my veranda for a while, played with the cats and enjoyed the various birds flitting around in the trees. It was so peaceful after all the Christmas celebrations. Glancing over at the pile of furniture needing to be moved back into my living room I decided it was time to [...]

Happy New Year We No Die-O

Happy New Year We No Die-O rings across Sierra Leone this week.  It is easily translated into “We didn’t die this year and we are happy ”.
While most of us who live here or have in the past, we use this as a sort of joke with each other.  Today I am fervently saying and [...]

Its Only Mail

I opened a letter that just came in the mail. I glanced at the date on it, and seeing Feb on it, thought to myself “well that took its time getting here” since this is now September. As I began reading the letter I realized the news in it was very old and looked at [...]

Its only Water

When a flame shot out of the switch on our water pump, my heart dropped. Finances have been very tight and another maintenance problem was not what I needed. I scraped enough money together to get another switch only to find that the water pump was burned out and the broken switch was [...]


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