Harmattan is upon us and so one of my New Year’s Resolution’s is to dedicate about 2 hours a day, six days a week to keeping the dust down. Harmattan is what happens when the prevailing winds shift to come out of the north east, blowing Saharan dirt down to Ghana. Our world is at […]
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The Two Faces of 2012
It’s that time of year again, time to look back and sum it all up. What stands out most in my mind is the difference between the first and last six months of the year. In June, Bob and I left the American South to live in Africa. We moved from Pittsboro, North Carolina a […]
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Aftermath
It happened yesterday on the Winter Solstice. The Mayan calendar ran out. As far as I can tell, not much has changed here in Kumasi. Back in the States many of our friends have been looking forward this day, certain it would herald an end of the world as we know it. Or at least […]
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Up in Arms, Again
Once again, senseless violence has the survivors scrambling to make sense of the unfathomable. I get a lot of my news from Facebook. Or from Bob who often sees it first on Facebook. Last night, as I headed upstairs to start working on dinner, Bob told me about the latest American horror in which a 20-year-old took […]
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The Rumor Mill
This week’s rumors involve toxic waste and elections. Rumor has it that the NDC won the election with help from the Chinese. A word to the wise: if you have Asian features, don’t stay out after dark because people are pissed off! Rumor also has it that the chemical waste from the Dimethoate clean up […]