Monthly Archives: April 2009

The World’s Best Places

By Erin | Published: April 30, 2009

I read this yesterday, about the best places to live on the planet, based on a quality of life score (“factors [included] health services, political stability, traffic congestion, crime, media censorship, pollution, mail services, and even the variety and quality of restaurants and theatre,” according to another article). I’ll summarize for you: Europe-Europe-Europe-Canada-Europe-Europe… and so [...]

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Debrief

By Erin | Published: April 28, 2009

I woke up at 6:00 this morning to head into town for our Congo team’s “debriefing” at 7:30. Far too early for a meeting, if you ask me, but that seems to be the only time of day we’re all consistently available. Granted, we’ve been back for more than a month, but in a lot [...]

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Fiston

By Erin | Published: April 23, 2009

Fiston’s shoes were always clean. In the two weeks we were there, the five of us—Evan, Robin, Luke, Fiston, and I—trounced through some of the muddiest places, walked over some of the dustiest roads. Our shoes became filthier and filthier, turned deeper orange as time passed. But Fiston’s shoes stayed immaculate, spotless. I watched his [...]

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I Am Becoming My Father

By Erin | Published: April 22, 2009

The other day, before I lost one job and lost pretty much all hours on the other, I made a list of improvements I’d like to make to our house eventually (key word here, eventually–even before losing most of my income), organized by room. Kitchen. Paint the walls (first, decide on color: Jesse wants yellow, [...]

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The Month of the Sandwich

By Erin | Published: April 17, 2009

So Jesse and I have been into sandwiches lately. (Pause for just a second: I wish this post could be about something important. Something worthwhile. Like, maybe there’s a really nifty metaphor coming up that will illuminate some deep meaning or epiphany. But, no. It’s really just about sandwiches.) Okay, back to sandwiches. We seem [...]

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