My emotions are running high. I am still processing everything that happened. Writing is always cathartic for me, and so I’ve turned to write here:
<p... Read moreRight on Our Doorstep
This afternoon, Matello, our outreach coordinator, came to me with a pressing concern.
One of our safe-home caregivers had arrived at work with information about a young boy, in a village not five…
Read moreStopped in My Tracks
It’s funny how sometimes, when a tough, out-of-the-ordinary task becomes routine, it takes just one, unexpected failure among regular successes to stop you in your tracks,…
Read moreFat Faces Greet Me Home
I haven’t posted in a while because I just returned to TTL today after spending two weeks on vacation, traveling through South Africa and Lesotho with…
Read moreMy New Year’s Resolution
Today is New Year’s Eve, and so my time in Mokhotlong is winding down. I return home in just a month and a half — a…
Read moreAn X-ray Dustpan
Today, as I sat in the entrance to the Mokhotlong Government Hospital waiting to meet with the District Medical Officer about some TTL business, I watched…
Read moreMpho Goes Home
Today marked another departure from the safe-home. Mpho went home.
He first came here shortly after being born on June 6, weighing less than 4 pounds. He was born a twin, but his twin… Read moreA Headache for Three Days
Another baby boy arrived at TTL yesterday, another child orphaned shortly after birth. Born on November 7, his mother died on December 8, likely from complications of…
Read moreCoughing in a Storm
This weekend passed by in what seemed to be one massive rain cloud, a cloud that would not pass through town itself, that lingered and dumped much-needed rain…
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