Dance and other disasters | Ngoma na balaa nyingine

Last week I started taking a Senegalese sabar dance class, and today I almost quit. Let me first pause and laugh at the absurdity of that for a moment. Someone once said to me a long time ago, I don’t quite recall who it was, “Sylvia, you give up too easily.” Do I?? Maybe. If …

I’m back! | Nimerudi!

Dear readers, join me for a cup of tea. After yet another long hiatus, today I return to share the reasons behind the pause and the reflections that have arisen from it. In December, I went home to Tanzania for the first time in a very long time; weeks had somehow became months and, before …