I knew a bird lady in Papua New Guinea. She wasn’t the Mary Poppins bird lady, or the bird lady from Home Alone 2 who found a substitute for human company in Central Park pigeons, nor was she an animal hoarder with 20 birds in her house. She was a bird lady because she sounded […]
I loathe the packing process. I don’t know if it’s because the last ten years of my life have been spent packing and unpacking with brief spurts of stability in between, or if it’s simply because packing forces me to be organized and think ahead (bleh). The whole process becomes a giant puzzle that doesn’t […]
Sometimes I wonder if I missed my calling in life. What was I really supposed to be when I grew up? A writer? A dog trainer? Working my way through the ranks of a therapeutic horseback riding stable? A teacher (eek!)? If I opened the door of unchosen professions wider, we’d start seeing wisps of […]
Traditional clothing seen on the Rai Coast It’s interesting to me how the western world feels the need to put clothes on naked village children. We have this mindset that all children need to wear clothes because that’s obviously appropriate; naked children running around in the world makes us feel sad and is kind of […]
It was setting up to be another brutally hot day when we woke up in our small bamboo house. I chose to stay on top of my sleeping bag where I was able to watch the geckos play in the roof while listening to the sounds of a Papua New Guinean village waking up. I […]
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