So it has been a while. In part, I haven’t been updating, because I’ve been trying to decide how (or even if) the blog is relevant for me to have anymore now that my Peace Corps service is over.
After a long delay and inner debate, I’m back up and running. Since getting home, I’ve had the chance to talk with many people about my blog and how useful and informative it was to them while I was in Uganda. I’ve finally decided that I’m still going to be working with issues that, though they are closer to my American home, are very much worth writing about and sharing.
While I was abroad, facebook and twitter became wildly popular, but the short-form sharing (and often over-sharing) that happens through those avenues tends not to allow the same sort of nuanced discussion of important issues that are close to my heart as good, old-fashioned writing without character limits or hyperlinks.
So I’ve decided to continue this blogging experiment (as it has been from the very beginning) to a new chapter. In the next week, I’ll be going back to fill in some blanks I’d left unwritten: my travels in Morocco, Mali, and Burkina Faso; what it was like to come home; my solo bike trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And then I’ll be writing forward. Please participate– let me know if you’re reading and what of it you enjoy. The more discussion and good questions, the better.
Cheers,
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