Walk with me down a Ugandan street for just a minute, will you? Take a look at the green palm fronds and red dirt roads and thousands of m...

Peace Corps volunteers are a lonely bunch. When I first arrived in country, I viewed my Peace Corps trainers as strange creatures indeed. T...

This post is just for future PCVs who are working on the daunting task of packing. The post is divided into sections with notes about regr...

For the past three weeks or so, I’ve been working in the school’s “book store”—a tiny room filled to the brim with filthy, disorganized, l...

This week, the president of Uganda signed into law the anti-homosexuality bill. While homosexual acts are already illegal here, the bill ...