About me...
I wrote this "About me" section when I joined Facebook, I don't know, maybe 8 years ago? Life is short. Life is sweet. Life is a bag of rocks smashing you in the head. Life is the 2 a.m. conversations about your insane adventures, wi…
Everyday people making a difference
As you know, on this journey of mine we are highlighting everyday people who make a difference. They are out there; we just don't hear about them ... like Nicholas, in Las Minitas, Nicaragua. Through The Friends Project [www.thefriendsproject.…
Little hands, big dreams.
My final trip up to Las Minitas, to hang out with the kids in the new preschool. Marisela was helping them with creativity and, likely, some control, because they needed some help tracing their hands to make pictures. she's awesome with the kid…
The universe is smiling on us.
It's my final day in El Sauce before I take off for Peru and Bolivia, and I think EVERY friend of mine from Las Minitas from the cofee and tourism cooperatives is in town. Even the ones I never see. Alcides and Nicholas, and then Emiliano and…
Opening day!
I arrived at the preschool in Las Minitas to find palm fronds decorated with paper flowers on the door and tablecloths on the two tables families had brought to the school. Javier, who also teaches our English class, myself, Frankling and Alcides…
Beinvenidos al preescolar Guardabarranco!
The national bird of Nicaragua is the guardabarranco, a lovely little creature with yellow chest and a splash of red on its wings and a long tail of bright blue like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. It is so common on the way to and in Las Min…
The Beast
This was “The Beast” that brought a whiteboard that will stretch across an entire wall in the school, along with books, educational games, and other school supplies. Why? Because, despite the torrential downpour last night, despite the roads bein…
It's go time.
10 a.m. Friday. Go time. Heading up to Las Minitas in the pick-up with a bookcase, $150 in books and games and other learning creativity things, and we expect about 60 members of the community to meet us there after we've stealthily arranged th…
Unveiling is this Friday
These kiddos get to walk into their own preschool, with a bookshelf and books and laminated learning maps and games and supplies for crafts for their imaginations this Friday! Someone from the community in Las Minitas is building 2 doors by hand:…