My favorite color in the world is that of the color of the sky exactly 20 minutes after sunset and 5 minutes before the first star appears. Of course, if you drape it around a…
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scanhappy – a statistical update
Scan-Happy! Anybody out there remember back in March ´01 when I did a short stint working in an internet cafe? Well one of the former-employee-benefits that I just uncovered is free scanning! Yeah! So I´ve…
i have lice
I Have Lice I`m a terrible friend to post this picture of my fellow long-term volunteer friends… ….but how could I resist!? I`ve been busy spinning the turn-tables from being a “Community Developer” to an…
5 minutes missed
***** While picking up my clean clothes yesterday, the laundry woman asked me, “You work with the children in the dump don`t you?” I said, “Yes. How did you know that?”. “I saw your picture…
grandmas aren’t always this sexy
***** This is my bus stop…. A view worthy of a “stop” – bus or no bus. ***** Guatemala regularly receives mass shipments of American second hand clothing, which it then re-sells for pennies at…
rising the souls of the dead
Feria del Barrilete Gigante “Giant Kite Festival” Latin America prefers to celebrate a Day of Saints instead of a “Dia de los Brujas” (“Day of the Witches”…aka Halloween). And how exactly do they celebrate it?…
help desk-less
Help Desk-less Funny. Me-of-little-computer-knowledge, have found myself the most computer literate person in the office of my project. Despite my “I´m a WEB-person, WEB-person, not an IT person…” protests, I have found myself tinkering and…
the uneven life
***** This morning I cut my hair with a mini swiss army knife (*see note at bottom). The simple *if not uneven* life is good. ***** The Spanish word for “wife” is “esposa”. The Spanish…
the fine print
The Fine Print Okay. So I just bought another five months of travel insurance online… *bank account cringes as she wipes the sweat from her Dad´s brow*…and I just HAD to share my hearty laugh…