Posts tagged ‘development’

Front cover of And Then I Came Here by Lynne Kay

Maria’s Story (Part One)

“I’m a pretty confident person. I didn’t have a lot of anxiety about packing up my life and going to a place where I knew nobody and just starting up by myself. And then one month into being here, I was robbed at gunpoint and handcuffed to my housekeeper in the toilet.” New Yorker and sexologist Maria describes her life and experience in Malawi in the first of three excerpts from the book And Then I Came Here by Lynne Kay.

One day, I will be the organ grinder – Part One

“Commercial pressures in my previous life prevented me from adopting the organic way of gardening (and indeed life), though no doubt this may be seen as an excuse. But it is a fact of life that while on a personal level the whole concept of organic gardening is, among all its other benefits, extremely cost effective, in the commercial world it is still a prohibitively expensive option.” Mike returns to one of his favourite topics – organics.