Tag archive: Preemptive Love Coalition
Living a better story
For the third time in two years, I read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. If you remember the last time I blogged about the book, I was leaving for Iraq. I found a story to fight… continue reading »
Life updates, August 2010
I haven’t blogged to just blog in a while. I’ve written a lot about PLC; I’ve written a few creative pieces, but I haven’t just blogged. Granted, most of the time I blog I have some muse to inspire me.… continue reading »
On health care in Iraq
Health care – or “Obamacare” – is still a buzz word around here. Though having been out of the country for two months, and completely shutting myself off from American politics, I knew that the tension of the healthcare reform… continue reading »
Jesus Wore Klash
The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood.—Kurdish men wear these funny shoes called klash. They’re handmade, hand-sown clogs with a hard sole and white top. Ever since Lydia and I first arrived at the Sulaimania airport,… continue reading »
Jeremy Courtney is legit.
I’ve had this blog in my head for a while. I didn’t want to write it until I was home in the States. I didn’t want anyone to think Jeremy coerced me into writing it. I promise: no coercing took… continue reading »
Nine of the fifteen people I live with
I love them. Back-front, L-R:JoeyD-BuckSophiePopBenjiMe! (Laurenzo)Claireta “Killer”AlexiEl PresidenteLydEstah
Happy (belated) America Day from Iraq
It’s fun celebrating an American holiday abroad. I highly recommend it. I love that no one understood why we ran to the basement Ferdos market to find sparklers; or why we made a makeshift American flag and saluted to it.… continue reading »
Hospitals, sick babies & a remedy
A few weeks ago I got to visit a children’s hospital in Sulaimaniah. We went to meet Dr. Aso Faiq Salih, the only pediatric cardiologist in Kurdistan, who’s also a dear friend of Preemptive Love Coalition. Dr. Aso’s office was… continue reading »
What I Do 40 Hours a Week
Most of you have been asking about what I’ve been up to, other than learning about what it means to be a Kurd in northern Iraq. … I am an intern. I work 40 hours a week – did you know… continue reading »
She’s Always Smiling
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to meet Honya Mahdi, a 15 month-old who had surgery last November. I remember reading about her on the PLC blog months ago, when I was first learning about Preemptive Love Coalition.… continue reading »