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Oh it hurt all right...

... to be uprooted one more time. ( Full post )

A month has passed ...

� and it�s time for me to go home. I am ready to go home and I�m not, but that�s how it should be when one has had a good trip. ( Full post )

African plans have a way of changing...

Not to worry - I'm still coming home on Sunday - but who am I to turn down a last minute roadtrip to Bloemfontein? ( Full post )

Would you like some monkey�s foot with that, ma�?

Wednesday was Independence Day here and it was quite uneventful. At midnight, between Tuesday and Wednesday, the new flag was unveiled at a ceremony attended mostly by politicians at the soccer stadium. Yes, it is the third flag in 40 years. ( Full post )

Independence day in Lesotho

It's end of the day time on Tuesday here in Maseru, and I'm looking forward to Wednesday off. ( Full post )

Staying warm in the back of a police truck

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African odds and ends

An observation: all of Africa runs on one long extension cord. ( Full post )

Weekend plans in Morija

It's Friday evening here, and though I have to put in half a day tomorrow (like everyone else) it feels like the week is over. ( Full post )

Helping Tieho

I got a posting asking for an update on little Tieho - the four-year-old girl with cancer - and also asking if there is some way in which readers can help her. ( Full post )

Living for less than $2 a day

When you arrive in a new country it�s often difficult to tell what�s expensive and what�s not. You calculate, using fingers and toes, trying to gain some understanding of what�s a lot of money and what�s not? ( Full post )

You can�t go to Africa and not talk about AIDS

Every morning on the way to work, walking from where the taxi drops us off on the main road, I cross the condom field. This must be where all condoms in the world go to die, as the stretch of grass between the soccer field, a housing project and the United Nations complex is littered with condoms. And trash. ( Full post )

Update on sick woman across the street

Last night, Libuseng and I went to check up on the ill woman across the street, and I�m happy to report that she is much better. ( Full post )

On being white when no one else is

Being a white woman in a totally black country will get you some attention, alright. ( Full post )

White lunch

The other day I found the place where white people eat lunch in Maseru. It�s called Lancers and it�s a nice, comfortable restaurant in colonial Dutch style, located in the middle of Maseru. ( Full post )

Dinosaur footprints

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A different media landscape

We are really going to Qacha�s Nek to distribute the magazine, Eye on Family, that�s being published by The Public Eye. ( Full post )

To beautiful Monday mornings

This Monday morning was the best Monday morning I�ve had in years. I mean no offense to family, friends, lovers or anyone else who�s tried to brighten my Monday mornings � but this one was special. ( Full post )

Qacha�s Nek

It is pitch black and the road ahead of us only goes as far as the headlights reach. Like ghosts, carrying sticks and wrapped in flowing blankets, sometimes riding high-stepping ponies, local farmers and herd boys come out of the darkness ahead of us, briefly illuminated by the lights of the car, they disappear in the darkness behind us headed for where ever they are going. ( Full post )

Good Tuesday morning from Maseru

I'm back in Maseru again, after a two-day drive, 16 hours of driving on TINY mountain roads, to deliver magazines in Qacha's Nek (on the border to South Africa - on the east side of Lesotho) ( Full post )

What does fair and ethical trade really mean?

So maybe I�m the last person on the planet to realize this, but I was surprised by the high number of Chinese businesses in Lesotho � and in some other African nations. ( Full post )