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 | Feb 10, 2020 | The Lulu Tree philosophy
On the Issue of Culture by Erica Hale, VP of The Lulu Tree Sometimes I feel like I live in two worlds, with one foot in North America and the other in Africa, and there are days when the stretch and pull of it make me feel like my heart might rip in two. I sit in my...
by Lulu Stories | Jan 27, 2020 | Happenings in Sierra Leone, Lulu News, Lulu Tree Updates, The Lulu Tree philosophy
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s Trip, Part 4) By Mommy Emily It’s night in Kamassaralie Village, and the ants are crawling up my legs. They’re tiny and red, and apparently they like white skin. I discreetly try to rub them off my calves while sitting on the...
by Emily | Jan 13, 2020 | Happenings in Liberia, Lulu News, Uncategorized
The Long Winding Roads of Africa (Emily’s Trip, Part 3) By Mommy Emily I wouldn’t have noticed them if I hadn’t turned my head. A flash of color, and then we’d passed by. These two tiny children whose arms were like matchsticks. I was in western Africa, in a country...
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....
