In a recent film, Helen Hunt plays a waitress who is annoyed with a customer, a man who cuts her down, is sarcastic, and is generally unkind. At one point she says to him, ‘I don’t want to be around you anymore. You make me not like me.’ My...
“Boy, I wish I could be a part of that,” I thought as we walked past several women chatting at the pump waiting to get their headpans filled with water. I’m sure if those women knew what I was wishing they’d I was crazy. Why would you want to...
“Am I really a global worker?” She was new on the field. She had a baby in her arms and a two-year-old clinging to her skirt. Her four-year-old was buzzing circles around us. “I spent six years in Eastern Europe as a single global worker,” she went on. “I...
Right after we moved to Slovenia, a gypsy woman with two small children came to our door asking for food, clothes, or money. I was able to give her some things and she went away grateful. Over the years I began to notice that whenever gypsies were in the...
