by Emily | Apr 13, 2020 | Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda, Lulu Tree Updates
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] By Mommy Emily I’m driving to my in-laws’ farm. It’s after supper and the gravel roads are empty,... 
by Lulu Stories | Feb 24, 2020 | Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda
The Long Winding Roads of Africa – (Emily’s Trip, Part 5) By Mommy Emily Our days are spent under the leafy Tamarind tree, there in the church compound of Nimule, South Sudan. It’s a sanctuary of its own, this tree, providing refuge from the mango-colored tropical... 
by Lulu Stories | Dec 16, 2019 | Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s trip part 2) by Mommy Emily It hits me at random times, this living with my heart in two worlds. It hits me as the plane slices through grey clouds touching down in Canada, and all I see is the white of snow like one... 
by Lulu Stories | Dec 9, 2019 | Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s trip, part 1) by Mommy Emily Chimpanzees line the highway, babies clinging to their mothers’ fur, as we sit in the back of a white van taxi headed back to Uganda. I’m seated with my friends from Uganda.... 
by Lulu Stories | Nov 18, 2019 | Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda
By Mommy Emily I’ve wrapped up 18 gifts from the thrift store for my kids to open, one for each of the days I’m gone. I’ve snuggled and wept. I’ve had a slumber party with dancing and games and too many stories, because tomorrow I will say... 
by Emily | Oct 22, 2019 | Happenings in Liberia, Happenings in Sierra Leone, Happenings in South Sudan, Happenings in Uganda
by Mommy Emily *thanks to World Help for photos from my first trip to Uganda/Rwanda in 2014 Nearly six years ago now, emptied by a recent miscarriage and swollen with a writer’s pride, I stepped off the plane in Uganda, Africa, on a blogger’s trip, to be immediately...