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you think gas prices in the u.s. are high? check this out: $6.65 a gallon for diesel. no joke. you say, what?! why?! the answer: uganda is in the middle of an ongoing diesel shortage. the gist of the problem:
- uganda is landlocked.
- uganda is dependent on its coastal neighbors […]

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we are unintentionally creating an elephant motif in our house. the long wall in the main room is covered from edge to edge with an elephant printed batik hung by a bamboo rod taken from the bamboo patch in our garden. 8 purple elephants marching left to right across our wall. there’s […]

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i’ve been lethargic in my reading lately. i think it has a lot to do with phil being home. i read a lot more when he’s gone, which explains why i have a new book review since i read a lot when he was in scandanavia last month.

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we’ve been together close to 7 years, living together for 3 1/2 and we’ve never lived in a place where we could truly throw a party. we do now, so yesterday we threw a going-away party for our friends chris and lindsey.

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the latest addition to the anderson bowen household is a tiny black and white cutie in the form of a 6-week old kitten that we’ve dubbed ttaano (pronounced ta-no) - luganda for 5. over the years there’ve been stray cats and dogs between uno and ttaano which accounted for 2, 3, and 4. […]

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last king of scotland premiered in uganda right around the time seth arrived in town…about 5 weeks ago. it was a big deal - forest whittaker was here, there was a red carpet at garden city. we didn’t have enough connections - although we do know the bbc correspondent - to get us […]

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sunday pickup was fun for me tonight for the first time in a good 1.5 months. following the tournament (see 7HC), maybe i was a little burned out. i’m struggling with the constant restart - this is a forehand, this is a stack, this is a cut - that comes from having new […]

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i recently wrote about the influx of people looking for jobs now that we’ve advertised the location of our offices. i may have unintentionally sounded frustrated…seeming to say, “please, stop - no more!” then, yesterday i was reminded of the unique position i am in to make a difference.

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following the tradition of NGOs in africa, we recently installed road signs pointing the way to our offices. added visibility is good for the organization. an unforseen but expected consequence, however, is that the signs bring people knocking at the door looking for a job.

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uno’s in high heaven here. for the first time since he was 7 months old he gets to go outside and he loves it. our new house in mbuya has an enormous yard (”garden” in uganda-speak) with lots of vegetation and animal life to explore and - to our comfort - comes replete […]

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