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It was the day before Stephen’s flight to USA. My back pain was killing me as I was busy sorting out the last details that needed to be addressed before Stephen got on the plane in Entebbe the following evening. I was packing and weighing his bags. The friction between us was tangible but IContinue reading “Operation Escape Uganda”

I believe pools of people congregating together for a long period of time lose their eyes…lose their awareness for particular things. That’s why it is so necessary that other cultural groups come in and re-see the things they are now blind to. It works like a global self-healing mechanism, which calls all to participate. ThereContinue reading “Strange things—unseen.”

At times I’m smug and confident and I crank out work like nobody’s business. The purchase order list is long and has a lot of intricacies but I’ve organized it on an everchanging excel sheet with multiple tabs. The list of students that need to be added to the orientation course is huge but IContinue reading “An added reality”

For those of you who are praying for us, please pray earnestly for our safety. The fence we put up 5 years ago is now seriously compromised and no longer keeping people out who have sinister motives. We’ve been enduring periodic incidents where people come at night and take the metal stakes that hold upContinue reading “Thieves Again”

Last week my husband and I took a trip to Kampala for some fabric, in preparation for a few more business clothing I’d be needing for the new position at Uganda Christian University. The biggest fabric and tailoring hub is on Kiyembe Llane in Kampala. The street is renown for quality fabrics of all types.Continue reading “Fabric Shopping”

Living nearby is an old man who putters around the neighborhood. He lives alone in a small rental. But he keeps an eye on the movement of the neighborhood. He does odd jobs for us and relishes doing them for us. He wants to earn money for his weekly visit to the doctor. It isContinue reading “Muzei”

There is an uncle from my husband’s extended family, who lives in kikondwa. He lived there with his wife and sons nearby. My husband knows him well because that is the same village he grew up in. When he was little, this uncle came with his young family to live nearby because his father hadContinue reading “Why murder is always discussed at burials.”

We continue to monitor and be vigilant. We ask for many prayers for our safety. Thieves have become much more bold these days. For me it is not the fact that things may be stollen and that we have technology that is highly lucrative on the black market’s list. I mostly fear the trauma resultingContinue reading “Lord, protect us from Thieves”

I have walked with the grief of Hannah, I have been despised like Leah, betrayed by the likes of Jacob. Felt abandonment. Seen horrors. At times the grief was so heavy, it was as though I would die. Many turn their faces from my words as though ashamed. Some try to hush me. Yet IContinue reading “The Panyas”