She sits on the back wall of the marketplace, pedaling fruits and vegetables that look familiar and those that don’t. She weighs them with experienced, weathered hands on an experienced, weathered scale. He catches our eyes and makes the universal sign for “take a picture”, then his smile brightens when we turn the camera and show… Read more »
After riding in a bus on the left side of the road behind a pickup truck with a covered bed littered with children, we arrived at out granite-countered hotel. The space between my ears is filled with too much swirling and processing that I can offer only visuals of this trip right now. The words,… Read more »
{The Sri Lankan coastline from my plane window this morning.} “You go on a airplane and go see O, Mommy?” He parrots back to me bits and pieces of what I have told him about this trip. “And den you give him his happy birthday present? Then you come home?” OBoy and I have had… Read more »
{image credit: Hasanthi Jayamaha/World Vision} Can I just tell you? My social media connected self breathed a sigh of relief when World Vision announced the Sri Lanka trip bloggers and I could stop keeping the secret. You have no idea how hard it was for me not to tweet from the cue in the passport bureau… Read more »
