August 13, 2018 I hardly know where to begin!  Saturday was the reunion of all the beneficiaries of Empower the World (ETW).  There have been over 200 by my rough count, but a turn-up of 55 wasn’t bad.  They are scattered about the country, some out of country, some still in school, with exams and of course some […]

August 7, 2018 You may have noticed that I’ve not written much of late.  It seems to me that I’ve been very busy, but still nothing much to write about.  However now tuitioning (free math classes) has begun, with all the attendant need for organizing. Every year it’s the same thought (worry)—“Will they come?”  I think of the […]

July 31, 2018 Yesterday I hopped a ride with Lydia to Nakuru, where I am visiting Fr. Kiriti.  I arrived Java House 10:30, and worked a Sudoku until he arrived at noon.  I’d asked my friend, Agnes, where I could buy yarn.  Evidently no knitters in Naivasha—I searched all the markets. So, after a so-so salad, we went […]

July 28, 2018 I thought it was going to be a quiet day of doing nothing. NOT!! As I sat eating my daily dose of bran cereal with cranberries and walnuts (courtesy of T. Joe’s), Rafael knocks on my door.  He did that yesterday too, and I suddenly realized he was stopping by to be sure […]

July 26, 2018 My summer visit is more than ½ gone!  ACH!  Where did it go?  It always feels like this—like I’ve just arrived and suddenly I’m winging my way back.  Today Hillary and I took Julie to Nairobi, where she’s spending the night in a very posh hotel.  In the lobby we are all […]

July 22, 2018 I think I haven’t posted for more than a week—not because I had nothing to report.  Quite the opposite, I’ve been so busy I’ve had no time (or sometimes no energy) to write.  This will be a short synopsis.  I can’t remember everything. Last Friday my 3rd visitor arrived.  Julie Schatz is […]

July 13, 2018 Friday Yesterday Hillary drove us to the Maasai Market for my annual junket to buy treasures for our craft shows.  Mary and Kathleen were quite overwhelmed, as I was by the first few times I went.  The hawkers are very aggressive, in 1 of 2 ways.  Either they try to overwhelm one […]

July 10, 2018 I spend every day at school, doing various things, meeting kids in the library during their very limited free time, teaching classes, teaching the teachers, meeting with the principal, or sometimes just working hairy problems.   Three Form 1 students come for consultation almost every day after lunch.  We discuss the problems they are […]

July 7, 2018 It has been really cold—turtle necks, camisole, vest, jacket kind of cold.  So we decided to have scarf day early this year.  For my new readers, scarf day began with Anita Dippery, one of the founding members of the Kenya Help board, knitting scarves for a number of the children at Mji.  That was so […]

July 5, 2018 Bright and early this morning Mary went across the road to the District Hospital where she spent the whole day, mostly in pediatrics.  At dinner, when each of us reported out the day, I could see how hard it had been to see the way meds were handled, how babies with pneumonia […]