Sierra Leone II

Friends, You probably received, as I did, an e-mail purporting to be from Ursula, describing being attacked in Madrid, losing her money, ba...

This entry is overdue; my apologies.  I have been having problems with the formatting of entries to pages, and have spent too many hours t...

“Ten Minute” reflections on...well, on what the Peace Corps experience has meant in our life, what our life has meant, what life in gen...

       A full menu for blog readers this week!          There are new additions to the “Ten Minutes” page, sent by Ray, Char (including Char...

Friends,      Our time in DC was a wonderful reunion--much better than anything, speaking for myself, I had dared hope for.  Thursday night...

      In this last chapter of   My Heart Is Like a Cabbage  prior to our reunion in DC, Jerry Mills chronicles an abysmal first Christmas ab...

      In Chapter seven of My Heart Is Like a Cabbage , a lonely Stephen is preparing to spend a very "white" Christmas, feeling al...

In the first section below, Marvin Hanson’s reminiscences lead him to break into verse, which he asks that Char read on his behalf at the...

     Thanks to Jim Murphy, who sent a copy of the Bureau of African Affairs' Background Note on Sierra Leone.  It's full of informat...

     Below you'll find the beginning of the fourth chapter of Jerry Mills' ongoing serialized novel My Heart Is Like a Cabbage , ba...