My brother sometimes sends me papers of his to edit. On every occasion but one, I've been able to read over his essay/reflection/research paper, give feedback, and return it to him by his requested time ( Read more... )

Took my brother huckleberry pickin' just a little bit ago.

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My brother shared this picture with me on FB this morning. I kept the window open all day, and whenever I was on my laptop looking at it made me smile ( Read more... )

(Maybe that subject line should be sk8tr boi? I don't know these things anymore ( Read more... )

Nathaniel came home last night - an event so rare the rest of us were susceptible to just sort of standing in his presence, taking it in - to say farewell to me. I leave today. It's not something I'm especially excited about ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder what the heck I'm doing. Not just what I'm doing here in Iraqi Kurdistan, but in general. What am I doing? Why now? Why here? How can I do it better? What's it, anyway ( Read more... )

Basically, my brother's one of the greatest people in the entire world, even when he's telling me true things I really don't want to hear. (He was. And I didn't want to hear them. But once they were out there, and I acknowledged them as truth, it made moving forward a little bit easier. And I really, really need to move forward right now.) We ( Read more... )

Greetings from sunny Iraq! ... Okay there is still an enormous part of me that is all like, What! We're in Iraq?? But then, I've only been here like three hours so far ( Read more... )

Hey all, my dear and darling brother is sick in Rome (he's been studying abroad in Rome all semester), and it's the kind of sick that has us all here quite worried. I did talk with him via Skype this evening (about 23:30 his time), and he sounded okay, but from the symptoms he told me, he might have mono. My first thought, upon hearing about his ( Read more... )

This morning I was up at first light so I could take the goats back down to Trinidad to be bred. This time, though, I left them there, which was something of a sad thing for me, since I was thinking I had two more days with the girls before I had to say goodbye. Oh well. Cynthia the goat lady feels like such a sweet and gentle person that leaving ( Read more... )