My dad lives six hours away from me

June 21, 2011

Three weekends ago, my mom, sister, and I helped my dad move to a city six hours’ drive away. The good news is the move wasn’t the result of a divorce or other relationship woe: my father’s job had moved to this new city and for reasons I will explain below (after giving you more [...]

Camp 2011 recap

June 13, 2011

It’s been a month since I last updated…sorry! I’m not a fan of blog entries that begin with an apology for not posting but I’ll make an exception this time. A few things have been going on in my life that I’d like to record here so I guess I’ll start with the most recent [...]

Jet lag (still) messing with my head

November 15, 2010

I arrived back from Nigeria a week ago and thanks to some uncharacteristic foresight, I had left a change of weather-appropriate clothes for my first day back to work at my parents’ house, knowing that we’d be arriving late in the evening the day before I was scheduled to return to work. I had also [...]

Postcard from Nigeria

October 21, 2010

Nigeria is a lot of things: hot, sticky, humid, loud, dirty, impatient, frustrating…but it’ll always feel like home because it is where my parents and grandparents (and so on) were born and so it’ll always be a part of me. Sometimes I think I could live here and thrive because there are so many opportunities [...]