

Go Food. Grow Food. Glow Food. Teaching my SOLID Group the Benefits of Permagardening
Above: A timelapse video Dan made of us doing some prep-work in the garden. During one of my very first SOLID group meetings (SOLID is a...


Grassroot Soccer Training #thispostsforDAVID
Our Grassroot Soccer Training Team. All of these PCV's and Counterparts will be going back to their communities to teach about HIV/AIDS...


Giving Thanks in Malawi
My thanksgiving this year was not the typical American Thanksgiving. I didn’t go to Grandma’s house to eat turkey, mashed potatoes,...


Takulandilani…My First Visitor Has Come and Gone
On October 15 at 12:20pm I had my first visitor arrive from the United States. Takulandilani, you are most welcome. Dan traveled the...


Spending the best day of the year with the people I love: Halloween at Kande
The night before the weekend of Halloween I decided that it might be a good idea to not stay in village and go and spend my favorite day...


#STOMPoutMalaria
Over the weekend I had the privilege of having three other PCV’s come to my house for a cross-site-visit to help Dan and I paint a...


A Malawian Buzz Feed: 16 Important Things I Learned in Malawi
1) That eating good food is so much more important than working out. 2) If there isn’t four plus people per row, babies on laps, and...


Sand. Sun. Face Paint. And Flower Crowns....Lake of Stars 2015
Over the past weekend I took my first days of vacation and went south for Lake of Stars. LOS is a music festival in Malawi directly on...


Leaving the water run while you brush your teeth...
For the last two days there has been a major water shortage in my area, but also in lots of other places all over Malawi. What does that...
Sometimes life is hard…but the roller coaster of life always goes back up.
So awhile back I was having a conversation with a friend. A very inspiring conversation, a conversation that I was reminded of today,...