Tag Archives: travel

Multitudes

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Linnea Ashley

Reconciling my own feelings about working overseas in development is difficult enough. Is there harm done? To what extent? Is there good? Does it make up for the bad? I don’t believe good intentions are enough, that something is always … Continue reading →

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#3 Music*

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Linnea Ashley

At the time I didn’t realize it was a race. In my mind the canoe was simply a lazy way to enjoy the beaming sun as we waited for the border between South Africa and Botswana to open. And so … Continue reading →

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holiday of faith

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Linnea Ashley

I felt the bump. Once. Twice. Maybe three times. I even looked around, irritated and my mind vaguely thinking about someone trying to pick my pocket. But downtown Kampala at dusk, sticking close to my BLB (big little brother) and … Continue reading →

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coming home to roost

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Linnea Ashley

Jeganda isn’t the brightest bird in the nest. When TQ, my roommate, brought her home we blamed it on the traumatic ride. After all, she’d been hung upside-down by her legs on the back of a bicycle. You can imagine … Continue reading →

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Give Water Give Health

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Linnea Ashley

Two years living in rural South Africa, where the lucky pulled their water from a bore hole and the unlucky walked miles away to gather theirs from a questionable open source, I began to realize the luxury of potable water. … Continue reading →

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packages of care

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Linnea Ashley

I was returned to my college days, my peace corps ones. returned to the joy that a tiny slip of paper in my mailbox can conjure. Yesterday I got a package from my parents. And the timing couldn’t have been … Continue reading →

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rodent roommates

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Linnea Ashley

Iganga Town, Uganda October 27, 2010 Mickey was cute…at first. Funny in his lack of fear and disregard of anyone sitting and watching him meander across the concrete floor, climb the book shelf, and nestle there like we were all … Continue reading →

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safe for the night

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Linnea Ashley

Happily ensconced in skype, I didn’t hear anything until my roommate knocked on my closed bedroom door. I looked up, distracted by my friend talking on the other side of the world. “the guard has caught someone and he’s holding … Continue reading →

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no beauty lost peace

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Linnea Ashley

Kampala, Uganda October 7, 2010 “I haven’t even been proposed to here, I think I’m insulted.” I was half joking but in retrospect I can hear how it must have sounded. No knowledge of my constant proposals in South Africa, … Continue reading →

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ICU lament

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Linnea Ashley

She lay there. Still. Mechanical breath raising and lowering her chest with a slight pause – a stutter in the system. The monitors flashed green and red, moaned indecipherably, whirs and screeches that – unmet by rushing attendants – were … Continue reading →

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