I arrived at the village in the early afternoon. The women, those old enough to carry a basin on their heads, were still not back from river. They chose to walk the 15 miles to the nearest river for water because the large pond that sat only four hundred yards away from the western most [...]
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“My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. ‘Cause I’m plagued with the thought of, you know, what she would have given me. ‘What didn’t I get to open this year?’” – Laura Knightlinger, taken from the Comedy Central web site. We finished [...] I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana from 1982 to 1985, first as a teacher then as a supervisor on a rural development project. After my service, I stayed on for another year as a contractor. Looking back, I’m not sure why I joined or what I expected when I did. I do [...] |
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