By the time this post is published, I will be in an airplane. Again.
Home, making
That I can tell, there is no word for “homemaking” in Nepali. There are words for cooking, words for cleaning, words for doing a whole…
The lights of Tihar and Christmas
Nepali Hindus just finished celebrating Tihar, also known as the Festival of Lights, and on the last days of the weeklong celebration they decorate their…
Lost in transition
We have to find a new church, and that just sucks. This isn’t because something bad happened. No. Our church was great. It’s just that…
Open the eyes of my heart
The hardest part of being here is seeing. Seeing the need. Seeing the disparity. Seeing the vain devotion. Seeing the truth.
Rhythm
I know it’s months (years?) away, but there will be a moment when all the things that right now feel so huge and different and…
The Pausing Place
In reality, the breaking down of the conventions of “safe parenting,” happened the moment we said yes to a crazy idea like moving to a…
Laundry
Right now, school doesn’t get started until 10 a.m. at my house. Our regular start-time was 9 a.m. in the States. By that hour, I…
We are here
We’re a week and a half(ish) in to the new norm of pumping water, watching a load-shedding schedule, listening to dogs bark all night long.…
All that you can’t leave behind
Despite what many folks seem to think, moving to Nepal is not the same as being stranded ont hat proverbial a desert island and having to choose the…