I could hear him mumbling as I closed my computer for the night. I had just finished binge watching Lost and it was very late. You know how “just one” episode turns into four, and then it’s technically morning. Oops. I had been living with my grandparents for several months and occasionally I would hear […]

I’m not entirely certain what happened to the past eleven months, but somehow or other we slammed into December. Since it’s perpetually the hottest day of summer in Madang I don’t feel like real time passes until it passes. Another year gone… just like that. Pretty sure I was pregnant last week, so, um, what?!? […]

The Hot. It comes quickly and sits oppressively on top of us for too long. This is the name I’ve given our summer months in PNG (October-February), and I’ve been bracing myself for it since June. Despite my stewing, when The Hot arrived three weeks ago I was ill prepared. Last year Ray tolerated The […]

Just as sleep was about to envelope me in that deep and satisfying way, I heard the familiar rustling from the other room. I inwardly groaned as the warmth of relaxed muscles gave way to readiness for the inevitable midnight nursing session. Willa always stirs before fully waking, and my ears are fine-tuned to the […]

Cars come, cars go. The constant flow slows and finally stops as the day turns into night, the night into the still morning. The silence that finally descends in those wee hours is only broken by an occasional truck heading to the docks, the loud clanging of containers being loaded onto a cargo ship, a […]