Making a home
Oh, so much has happened since I last posted six days ago. On Tuesday, after nearly a week of hotel living – restless hotel living, I might add: living out of suitcases and not feeling terribly settled...
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Today is Sunday, September 21, and we have been here for almost three weeks. Josh started teaching last week, and we got the kids just about enrolled at the local private, international school we found...
View ArticleFood. FOOD. FUUUUUD
This is the post my friend Emily has been waiting for. The FOOD! I should preface this with a couple of disclaimers. First, we spent about a week eating out when we first got here since we were in a...
View ArticlePhenomenal Woman
We are settling into life, or so it seems, until things get tossed upside down. The kids started school last week in the beginning of October. Two days later, they were on vacation for Eid. We decided...
View ArticleA busy 2015
We rang in the new year not in Dhaka, but in Rangamati, a small village in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. We spent a week traveling non-stop around the new year, exploring, but mostly in transit, it felt...
View ArticleThere is no PAAS in Bangladesh
You know what PAAS is, if you have spent any March or April in the United States. I remember dyeing eggs with my cousin as a kid – my aunt would get a kit from Zayre’s – a department store where she...
View Articlethe thin line
The other day, as I showered, I realized with a start that I couldn’t remember the last time I felt my scar. Almost two years ago, I had a cesarean birth with my youngest son, Will. The first year was...
View ArticleEight years young
Two blog entries ago I said I would talk about schooling and how our transition to schooling for the kids has gone, but then I went and lied and talked about my cesarean instead. Sorry! The first day...
View Articlerickshaws and rain
Today the heavens downpoured for my entire commute to school via rickshaw. 99% of the time I am fine not having a car or access to a car – it is nice not having to worry about the maintenance,...
View ArticleOn Whiteness, in three parts
One – What It Means to Be a Black Woman The whiteness – or in this case, blackness – of Rachel Dolezal was in question last week, after what seemed like an entire season’s worth of Maury Povich...
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