Midwest.Island.Girl

In grad school, I was fortunate to participate in two study trips to post apartheid South Africa. On the first …

We’d been told as we entered that the tent was damaged – the sidewalls were in place, but the top had been torn in a bad storm, so all we saw above us was sky. The show was wonderful! And then the next act was the Flying Wallendas! I’d seen the movie about them and their famous pyramid. The wire seemed so close – and the stars twinkling above them made it magical.

I recently moved cross-country on short notice to start a new job. They wanted me to start in two weeks, …

I first met Lin at an English luncheon hosted by my friend Angela. I had only been in China for …

I woke up around 12;30, tears were running down my face. My eyes were burning. I got up and tried …

I woke up more or less rested. Sleeping in a strange bed can be unsettling, and the walls in the …