So I found out from my mother that there was an article in The Star newspaper in Auburn this week about my husband Lynn as a new employee at Sweetwater Sound. Behold, Sweetwater hires Auburn native. You know that this must be a small town when employment makes the newspaper – or at least evidence [...]
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Eritrean Hospitality
I said goodbye to a beautiful family last night. This was the Eritrean refugee family to whom I taught English in Orlando the first year that I was in Florida. Ever since, I have kept in touch and visited on occasion. Jaered, Heda, Olana, Senayit, Layda, me and my mother It was a difficult goodbye, [...]
READ MORE »Headless Chickens and Romanian Seinfeld
In high school I spent one month in Romania working in an orphanage. During my time there I worked regularly in a soup kitchen but was commissioned, one day, to go with my friend Rachel to pluck headless chickens on a Romanian farm. When we arrived at the farm, we were greeted by a dusty [...]
READ MORE »Shoplifters Will Be Beaten
This weekend I drove to Cape Coral, Florida to visit Great Aunt Kay and my Grandma Geiser. One of the adventures of the weekend was a visit to a large flea market. We walked around the dusty stalls for a few hours and I was bombarded by the smell of leather, fried food, dirt and [...]
READ MORE »Gene the Hummingbird
Upon observing hummingbirds at the hummingbird feeder in Colorado, Gene decided he would bond with these creatures and attempted to extract sugar water from the feeder. Behind the camera I was yelling, “BE the hummingbird Gene!”
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