Raison d’etre
I read my students the riot act yesterday. Reading the Riot Act: “To give someone a severe scolding; to reprimand rowdy characters and warn them to stop behaving badly”. Not that I was worried that my...
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New Every Morning
The African dawn comes early on the equator. Before the sun even pops up over the horizon (between 6-6:30 a.m.), the “I’m Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” bird (anyone remember him?) is the first to arise in...
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Six Months In
It’s official! I have now passed the half-year mark of being in Kenya at Kabarak University (Oct 29th-April 29th; for Bruce, a few months longer, as he arrived August, 2015). Slowly by slowly, I have...
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We had a robbery last week in our Kabarak apartment. The day had started out normally enough with us returning from Nairobi a day later than originally planned, due to a “truckers’ strike” that was...
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Haraka Haraka Haina Baraka (In hurry there is no blessing) Generally speaking (though it’s so cliché to say it), things tend to move a bit slower here in Kenya. Including right here at Kabarak...
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When Helping Hurts
“Hey Bruce….is your phone near you, because it’s been ringing and ringing!” I shout out to my husband, who’s working on the computer in the other room. “Yes, I know, thanks. I have it right here…it’s...
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Do The Right Thing
I’ve been teaching “Ethics” to my first-year nursing students all month as part of their “Fundamentals of Nursing Practice” course. We’ve covered the usual definitions and several ethical theories,...
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Being “Other”
I have a student, let’s call him “Kip”, who is in the first year of the nursing program at Kabarak University. Kip did not do very well academically in my Fundamentals of Nursing I class last semester....
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Poured Out
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. The last day of class of the January-April trimester, teaching first-year nursing students that I have come to know a bit better this second time around (meaning I...
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It’s All Good
ALL GOOD THINGS…. ..must come to an end. And so here we are. It’s “that time” again…the time for all sorts of little “lists” and “lasts” associated with the business of moving from one side of the...
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