September 28, 2016: All 28 of us hazily departed the plane. We eventually approached volunteers with a sign: Bienvenidos a Guatemala. In my bedroom, Bienvenida hangs above my mosquitero. For a quick language lesson: because[…]
In no particular order. The Front Seat: My host mom sat with me in the back of her car and her two sons sat up front. Francisco & Javier are in their 30s, Rosa Maria[…]
It’s July 15. It’s my Grandmother’s birthday. I’m in Southeast Alaska, the nation’s largest national rainforest. It rains 13 feet a year annually in Ketchikan. But today it’s all sun and civilized life as I[…]
