Lisa

For my birthday, my parents used their frequent flier miles to give me a ticket to Vanuatu. I leave early tomorrow morning and I’ll be with Mike by mid-afternoon. It’ll …

I can’t believe it’s only been four days since I last talked to Mike, four days since the cyclone hit. It seems like weeks. I just had my first extended …

Last night was horrendous. I’m quite sure it wasn’t as awful for me as it was for Mike and his colleagues as they bunkered down in a small room at …

So much has changed during the last six weeks it’s hard to know where to start. We’ve packed up the house in Laos and bid some wrenching farewells to our …

It used to be that the question that stumped me was, “where’s home for you?” It took three years and a memoir, but I finally made my peace with that …

Laos is beautiful this time of year. During these three months it’s easy to forget how oppressive I find the heat during the rest of the year. But it was …