Forgive me if this entry is short. I guess I owe you a less sprawling entry given my last one was long enough to make your eyes bleed. The reason for its brevity is the one computer I used to work on when the power was functioning, suffered some t…

I fear that in waiting two weeks to post I’m going to have to completely disregard the guidelines for “blogging” etiquette and just write a book instead. I am dividing this entry into installments which you can either skim or skip entirely dependi…

We are here in the middle of our third week and starting to feel the momentum (or whatever rural India’s equivalent is) propel our projects forward. The “9 days of heat” which everyone has told us precedes the impending monsoon, has been extended …

Keena and I are settling in with a warm and welcoming community SPS staff. When I say warm, I mean warm in all senses of the word. Today temperatures peaked around 50 degrees celsius and despite the lack of electricity, bucket showers were piping …