The rainy season has returned. It’s rained twice in 24 hours. It also means my cell phone/internet provider now has a legitimate excuse for their consistently random service outages. MTN = Most Terrible Network. Not that I’m, you know, bitter about that or anything. If it weren’t for the fact that so many people already [...]
In the words of Mark Twain: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I apologize for the sizeable gap between the last missive and this one; I’ve had a bit of a cold, and the… creative definition of timeliness in Ghana seems to be growing on me. Today marks a quarter-century of me. I [...]
It’s becoming more and more difficult to find things to write about. This is not because there are fewer and fewer things happening; it’s because they are becoming more and more commonplace. Hauling water, for instance, has become something to which I barely give a second thought. Laundry is the same way; I fill my [...]
I’m not going to lie to you: I spent the first 10 minutes of trying to write this trying to come up with an alternative to “intrepid hero”. New year, new moniker, right? …Not so much. Anyway. My little parliamentary district became the focus of a nation this week. As those of you who have [...]
You know, of all the things I’ve been told to do while receiving a paycheck funded by your tax dollars, the one I’m currently enjoying the most is just screwing around in my house. So far this morning, I’ve swept the floor, hauled out the mattresses for their weekly airing-out, and done a small amount [...]