pizzagram
Woman at the next table films her third slow sweep of the entire restaurant. I am stuffing long reins of mozzarella in my mouth. I wipe my face and go over. 'Hi. So sorry to ...read more
my sweet friend
All the way home I am paying attention to the trees. These are my champions, companions, and friends. The morning after disembarking from far-off chilly-cold and fairytale Berlin I was scattering the pawpaw seeds from ...read more
rule of thump
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Today I was walking down the street wearing shorts and within a block two men had slowed down to call out to me. One was up high, in a truck. Yo yo yo! he said, ...read more
chiefmother
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I met the grandmother of the chief of the tiny coastal village near where I am staying, and she has been extraordinarily gracious. Today I went to visit, bringing with me two bottles of a ...read more
wipe after reading
I am crying all the time this week and in order to get anything done, I have to keep working while I cry. Screens are a blur, phones get wet. I cried in the taxi ...read more
Ghanaian men
I met six (6) beautiful British-Ghanaian men, who were sitting at the next table to mine. They had all just landed the night before, that is, last night: apart from 'one idiot' who inexplicably somehow ...read more
child on the floor
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The littlest member of drawing group was handed over in a hurry and he settled down, put his sticky little hands up on my neck and his face on my chest and decided seemed he ...read more
far distant Ghana beach
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The long trotro ride from Accra Mall to the middle of nowhere. The long wait under an awning while a second trotro very slowly filled. The long trotro ride to a small town with a ...read more
a very long summer out of doors
Looping conversation with a lady sitting on a park bench. She had met her husband at the age of sixteen when she stuck her hand up through the sand of some faraway place and took ...read more
the little people
It's nine years this July since I came to Berlin for a week and after 10 months away in Ghana it feels so very strange. This morning I got lectured for five minutes by a ...read more