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On The Border 2: Intake for the First Time

By on June 30, 2019

(Picture borrowed from Google search of Tucson Benedictine Monastery).

I had been getting intake emails since I got added to the list serve with subjects like “50 Guests Arriving at 1pm.” After a 2-hour training I was “ready” to do intake by Casa Alitas. I still didn’t know what that…


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On the Border 1: Intake Training for Immigrant Shelter

By on June 28, 2019

After my first week in Tucson, I went to a Desert Doves’ Meeting. Who are the Desert Doves? RPCVs (Return Peace Corps Volunteers) who live in Tucson. All of us individually at some point in our lives served 2 years in the Peace Corps somewhere in the world and…


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Tempering the Tension | Life after Peace Corps

By on June 25, 2019

Good News: when I wrote this post, I was fresh to grad school, Tucson, the USA, my house, modern appliances… I have settled into some kind of rhythm here. Yes, I still feel lost at times but I feel like I’ve taken the blindfold off and am taking steps…

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Ketchikan, Alaska

All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.