Posts Tagged ‘unforgivable self-indulgence’
A note not technically from, but in light of, Central Africa
New York City
Ever a woman of geographical ADHD, I’ve been in three cities since returning to the U.S. about 10 days ago. A few days in New York, a few days in DC, a few days in Chicago, a few weddings… but now we’re settling back into the City that, at some point in [...]
Materialism’s Materiel
Mostly, when I think about the number of boxes I packed up and took to my parents’ house before my half-move to Rwanda, I can’t believe how much crap I own.
But there are things I miss. The first time I came to Rwanda, I packed for the short work trip it was: a few [...]
Getting right speech right
I’m pretty sure I waxed rhapsodic in my graduate school essay about the importance of telling people’s stories. Stories were the one thing in the world that always made sense to me, even helped me make sense out of all the other things that didn’t. I don’t know when exactly it happened, but [...]
I’d like to change the topic, please
I still have lots to say about Monday evening, when I went to Butare to see how the students at the National University commemorated the anniversary of the start of the genocide.
And I still think pretty much only about that when I look across my garden at the busy road leading up to the town, [...]
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