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Hogtied Crock

While eating breakfast one morning my host dad, Fernando, asked me, "Lisa, were you frightened?" I had no idea what he was talking about. "No. Why?" I replied. "I thought maybe you saw the crocodile outside when you went to the bathroom this morning." "Crocodile?" I thought, "Am I translating this right?" So, I peered outside and sure enough there was a hogtied crocodile laying 5 feet from the front door. The crocodile had been terrorizing the...
Feria Blues... and Pinks, and Yellows and...

Guatemalan feria worker patiently awaiting passengers for his colorful carousel.
Styrofoam Wedding

As the young Guatemalan bride sits down with her groom to eat their reception lunch, the "girl bride" is busy playing with styrofoam flakes that showered the newlyweds after they exchanged their vows.
Tabaski Henna

My host-sister in Niger washes her feet after applying henna in preparation of the celebration of Tabaski.
Postscript to history

All the attention to the 40th anniversary in 2009 of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, reminded me of my own peculiar little footnote to this historic event. At the time, I was a Peace Corps volunteer living in the north-central Indian village of Rajnagar (rough translation: Kingston) where I was working, together with my colleague Jagdish Prasad Mishra, a "village level worker" (i.e., an agricultural extension agent), to help the local farmers increase their wheat...
An Offering

An "anciano", or ancient, Mayan man offers a passionfruit from his tree.
Vigilance

Isabel swings incense over the graves of her family on Dia de Todos Santos
Culture Clash

A Mayan grandma wrapped in traditional clothes supports her granddaughter wearing an American flag bandana
Sitting

An ancient Mayan man sits outside his house.
Break

An old Mayan woman takes a break from weaving

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