Title: When I'm 64 (
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Probably the last one.. - 26/Apr/2012 19:21 - 4606 days ago
It's hard to believe, but I have not written a blog since last July and it is now April. I have missed writing the blog and...
Bad Nancy - 26/Jul/2011 14:28 - 4881 days ago
So it's like I was never in Sri Lanka and I have easily fallen into disgrace. Yesterday I was with my cou...
Too Easy!! - 16/Jun/2011 13:43 - 4921 days ago
What a royal welcome home! My sister Roberta and my cousins Helene and Lyn were at Logan airport wit...
THIS IS IT! - 03/Jun/2011 09:44 - 4934 days ago
It's happening way to fast. I am leaving here Sunday, probably never to return. 6 months ago it felt right, now it is ...
I'm over it! - 12/May/2011 04:05 - 4956 days ago
Okay, I am over it. I got so much feedback basically reminding me that I am taking this PERSONALLY. It is...
Heartbroken - 06/May/2011 09:53 - 4962 days ago
Well a few days ago I said in my blog that I was ambivalent about leaving, now, a few days later, I ...
FUN AND GAMES - 02/May/2011 05:13 - 4966 days ago
Just heard Osama Bin Laden is dead. I am glad about that but I am not jumping for joy. The world fee...
FULL OF IT! - 02/Apr/2011 10:19 - 4996 days ago
I informed my dear cousin Helene that I would be apologizing to her publicly in this next blog. She had ...
The Misadventures of Nancy Miss - 16/Mar/2011 13:36 - 5013 days ago
It feels like I was away for a very long time. I have been traveling around Sri Lanka and a bit of India...
AI YO! - 06/Feb/2011 11:53 - 5051 days ago
A couple of weeks ago I got a text from my priest friend Patrick telling me that Fr. Peter had had a heart at...
I am laughing.. - 13/Jan/2011 14:48 - 5075 days ago
I must say, I think I am a pretty gutsy person in some ways. Today, not only did I ride on the back of a...
65 going on 13 - 02/Jan/2011 10:39 - 5086 days ago
Where to begin. I have been gone for weeks. The trip was sort of in 3 parts. Colombo was fine,...
Hard decisions - 28/Nov/2010 15:21 - 5121 days ago
November 19th began the hardest time I have had here. My sister Roberta called me. It was late afte...
If I believed... - 13/Nov/2010 11:42 - 5136 days ago
I have decided that Arugam Bay is, so far, my favorite place in Sri Lanka. The first day I arrived, I to...
good and bad - 31/Oct/2010 12:40 - 5149 days ago
Baby (my kitten) had her tubes tied on Wednesday. On Saturday I opened the door and she is now free to come and go as she c...
Snorkeling inside and out! - 03/Oct/2010 10:04 - 5177 days ago
To get to Trincomalee took 2 buses, first, 4 hours to Kandy and then 5 hours to Trinco. That cost a total of ...
The perfect meal - 18/Sep/2010 15:08 - 5192 days ago
Okay, I have returned to the perfect meal and I am basically living on it..Tuna Melts! It has everything...
The light dawns - 04/Sep/2010 17:16 - 5206 days ago
I haven't been feeling depressed anymore but I haven't been feeling like my positive self either. I have...
I made it! - 21/Aug/2010 11:49 - 5220 days ago
Well, I seem to have weathered the storm as "they" (who are they anyway?) say. My mother used to say "th...
The Sri Lankan Ways - 09/Aug/2010 15:47 - 5232 days ago
I am working my way thru my little aging crisis but along the way more important things are being discovered ...
The Sri Lankan Ways - 09/Aug/2010 15:47 - 5232 days ago
I am working my way thru my little aging crisis but along the way more important things are being discovered ...
Getting old? - 03/Aug/2010 16:24 - 5238 days ago
Wow I am really having a hard time the last few days, maybe since I returned from China. I am not sure; b...
Travels - 26/Jul/2010 13:49 - 5246 days ago
Before I even left for China, I was having adventures in Colombo. This is the text I sent to my colleagu...
Really?..a Cobra... - 22/Jun/2010 16:39 - 5280 days ago
Today Laxmi RN and Manikay RN where talking about Manikay leaving the house for work and a Cobra sitting ...
The Nurses Have Never Danced.. - 06/Jun/2010 10:17 - 5296 days ago
The nurses have never danced, never drank alcohol, even a taste. It is a very conservative society but they will bluntly sa...
Wesak - 28/May/2010 10:04 - 5305 days ago
This is not the blog I planned to post, I am working on another one but in the "being in the moment" pla...
WOMAN IN THE DUNES - 09/May/2010 02:25 - 5324 days ago
Many years ago I saw, what became, one of my favorite films. It is Japanese, slow and I thought it very ...
Problems and lessons - 20/Apr/2010 12:47 - 5343 days ago
I have a problem, I can't throw out my garbage today. My landladies (thought that would be a change from...
The Avuruddha - 14/Apr/2010 03:48 - 5349 days ago
Okay, this is it, I have only enough for one more cup of American coffee left. This will be the true test of whether I have...
Untitled - 14/Apr/2010 03:42 - 5349 days ago
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work and other stuff - 04/Apr/2010 15:08 - 5359 days ago
I wish you could here the sounds coming from outside right now. Each morning there is a moslem call to p...
Capacity Building - 22/Mar/2010 16:54 - 5372 days ago
h When I was in Colombo at our mental health meetings last week, it became clearer to me what we are here for....
My new favorite Priest - 19/Mar/2010 11:13 - 5375 days ago
So, the trip by bus was so horrible going to Colombo this time that I decided I would take the long train trip home,...
Musing and more.. - 09/Mar/2010 13:16 - 5385 days ago
I just had a lovely afternoon. I spent time on the ward with 2 of my favorite nurses who were covering f...
ignorance - 28/Feb/2010 11:21 - 5394 days ago
This week coming up may or may not be exciting. I got permission, when I was in Colomb...
mostly work.. - 18/Feb/2010 13:16 - 5404 days ago
I am so funny. I am chuckling to myself as I realize, here I am saying I am being in the moment, we...
continuation of the last one... - 14/Feb/2010 08:10 - 5408 days ago
I don't know if I shall ever post this, but I am getting myself more fully right now so had to write it d...
My funk... - 13/Feb/2010 08:01 - 5409 days ago
I have had a bit of a funk this week. I think it is partly feeling some confusion at work or around...
I am always doing something wrong... - 04/Feb/2010 08:08 - 5418 days ago
I am always doing something wrong here around eating. The hospital staff I work with, particularly the n...
thoughts and reflections - 01/Feb/2010 13:11 - 5421 days ago
Sociologically this is a very different place from the west. Very little seems to be done individually here. Much is d...
Since the last time - 23/Jan/2010 07:56 - 5430 days ago
I have felt quite disturbed the last week or so realizing that the Sri Lankan know very little about the world, past and present...
Just a few things - 15/Jan/2010 16:27 - 5438 days ago
I think I mentioned that my camera had fallen in the Indian Ocean but then worked for a while..well it now seems to be on life s...
Work... - 12/Jan/2010 13:40 - 5441 days ago
I don't know why I feel so reluctant to write about work. I have so little and yet so much to say. I don't know anythi...
The day I was a rock star.. - 09/Jan/2010 10:07 - 5444 days ago
I know, I shall write about work tomorrow definitely. Today though, I woke up, felt lazy so stayed in bed until 7:45 decide...
Last Night - 08/Jan/2010 02:00 - 5445 days ago
I was in bed at 11pm last night, pretty quiet outside for a change. I was reading my book and falling asleep. Suddenly...
More on Badulla - 06/Jan/2010 16:30 - 5447 days ago
This will be briefer tonight because I am tired and have a bit of a cold..I wish I could share the sounds of Badulla with you, m...
Every day an adventure - 03/Jan/2010 11:22 - 5450 days ago
So much happens every day that even though I am sitting in this sleezy, dirty internet place filled with dirty keyboards and dir...
Back from vacation - 27/Dec/2009 13:26 - 5457 days ago
Well, I've been to Galle and in someways, I'm glad to be back. 2 more days, 6 hours more of language class but on Wednesday...
Another Monday - 21/Dec/2009 12:06 - 5463 days ago
By the label of this can you tell I am eager to go to my posting in Badulla? Today I was shown pictures of my apartment and...
more.. - 16/Dec/2009 13:41 - 5468 days ago
After my last blog I decided to write down what I want to make sure to talk about because I invariably forget a lot and new stuf...
How to tell you everything... - 13/Dec/2009 13:25 - 5471 days ago
How to even begin this one. I feel I have been here for so long in some ways. I still am not sleeping much but am getting u...
In Country Training and life - 10/Dec/2009 12:28 - 5474 days ago
Well, I have wanted to write for what seems like many days but to my total surprise I have been too tired to walk to the interne...
Finally! - 07/Dec/2009 10:09 - 5477 days ago
Hi all, Well after about 11 months in the planning, the 4 lists, the anxiety, the excitement, the parties and the leavings and t...
My last day.. - 05/Dec/2009 12:20 - 5479 days ago
Well, I woke up pretty early, read about Colombo, SL my first stop for three weeks before going to my placement in Bad...
LIFE.... - 03/Dec/2009 00:14 - 5481 days ago
Within about half and hour of my last posting, I got a call from the angel who had agreed to care for my wonderful little puppy,...
My second party! - 29/Nov/2009 13:50 - 5485 days ago
Friday evening my sister Roberta and other family members gathered together to have a: she's finally leaving party. Actuall...
Moving on with the list including the VISA - 21/Nov/2009 12:56 - 5493 days ago
So I left NYC the day after my party and came to the suburbs of Boston to visit family. It happened not ...
Food..a post of it's own.. plus - 15/Nov/2009 12:31 - 5499 days ago
Pretty much my oldest friend, Ruthie, Ruth I guess is more grown up, who I went to Nursing school with is now a chef. She w...
I'm leaving New York.. - 15/Nov/2009 04:37 - 5499 days ago
From 3 to 9pm about 60 people arrived to celebrate the fact that I am leaving New York and going off on an adventure. ...
www.cuso-vso.org - 10/Nov/2009 17:51 - 5504 days ago
WHEN I'M 64...NANCY IN SRI LANKA: First CONTRIBUTIONS...
First CONTRIBUTIONS - 06/Nov/2009 00:14 - 5508 days ago
My first contributions have come in. People actually have sent money in support of me, this endeavor, CU...
Airline tickets - 04/Nov/2009 01:18 - 5510 days ago
Today I got an email asking if the airline tickets sound ok. I fly from Boston to NY to Doha to Colombo. It took me at...
I'm trying - 27/Oct/2009 21:49 - 5518 days ago
Each day I get more accomplished in my quest to be ready to leave NYC and the US by Dec. 4. Friends have come over and dire...
double oy - 18/Oct/2009 17:01 - 5527 days ago
OK now I have set up 5 blogs!!!! Blogger kept saying I couldn't have the url title I wanted so I kept trying and apparently eac...
OY..GETTING STARTED - 18/Oct/2009 16:33 - 5527 days ago
Well I am attempting to set up my own blog, pretty exciting right? It took about a million tries to get an address, I think beca...
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