I’m leaving. Tomorrow. I’m packing two bags and heading South. After circumventing the globe for the last fourteen months, moving comes naturally and easily to me. But this is different. I’m boarding…
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I live down by the big tree. If you’re taking the tro-tro from Teiman to Abokobi, tell the mate you’ll alight under the big tree. They’ll know the one. If you go…
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“Out of my window looking in the night, I can see the barges’ flickering light. Taking their cargo out into the sea, how I wish someday, they’d take me.” I laugh from…
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The moon is upside down here. My friend first pointed it out during one of our nightly walks back to our host family. Its crescent shape glows a deep orange against the…
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I had a heart to heart with my sister last night. I told her about my plans to go back to Morocco after leaving Ghana and the usual suspect, “Why?” came up.…
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When I got the call from my Dad last week I knew it was serious. They were taking my grandma to the emergency room. I had just seen her…