“Can I help you sir?” asked the young man at the Indian/Himalayan market. Big smile, hands wrung together, plastic sandals. Already I was thinking the answer was probably ‘no’. “Do you have any jaggery?” I asked. Now his smile was…
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Dinnertime Craziness
It all collides at dinner: low blood-sugar, stimulus overload from a day of school, punchy tiredness, and the impossibility of getting four people at the table at the same time. Forget the genial family dinner set under the olive trees…
Child Labor
There’s a reason kids are used for tasks like this. Just look at those nimble little fingers! I was having trouble helping Child Harbat weave using a crochet hook and she found it easier to just use her fingers.…
