Holli's Ramblings
My cheek is smudged with red clay. African soil keeps me grounded, dirty, alive. Gives me perspective and cause for alarm. Dusty, wet, preoccupied by irony and deceit, beauty and angst, the fragile and the strong. Beads of sweat trickle down my spine over time and through the valleys of this continent for over a decade. I could escape it but only tangibly. The unmistakable pattern of living this life in this place is a tattoo etched on my psyche, coursing through my veins. Forever.
tags: Africa, Ghana, lifestyle, observations, travel
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Started as a volunteer years ago, and stayed on with a career and family
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Happy New Year from across the ocean!
Posted on 31/12/2012
It's been over a year since we left Ghana's tropical shores. It's been a year of beginning a new lifestyle in many new places.Living onboard our sailboat is a lifetime away...
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Farewell Ghana - Hello new adventures
Posted on 11/04/2012
Boarding a plane from my suburban Canadian home so many years ago, with my three year old little boy, and our few worldly belongings in tow, I knew I had chosen adventure, the unknown, the...
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Ghana: Food adventures and the Cantonese Titanic
Posted on 16/10/2011
I used to be so adventurous when it came to food. Any street corner stall that offered up strange and wonderful mysterious delights caught my eye and my 'foodian' curiousity. The...
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Holli's world - Accra's Best Eats
Posted on 06/10/2011
Ok, so my son is gone and I am officially the mother of an empty nest. What better to focus on, than food? I figure I have started on the treadmill every day, just enough to ensure I...
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Moments like this
Posted on 22/09/2011
Blurry, the park across the street melts in my view and slips down in huge heavy tears onto my t-shirt. Five minutes before, I was posing for photos, thumbs up, with my boy. Our last...
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Pow wow - Poverty amidst prosperity in Canada
Posted on 15/09/2011
I have spent the past few years highlighting issues of poverty in Ghana through this blog. Many times I get feedback that asks me to look at poverty where I come from.The sad fact that many...
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Lifestyles of the Far-flung Expat
Posted on 08/08/2011
Life as an expat in a far away land can be so varied, so many diverse experiences await you. But the one thing you are pretty likely to have in common with every other expat is the annual...
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The Danger of the Written Word
Posted on 23/07/2011
A week ago today, I embarked on what has turned out to be a very dangerous trip.Not the wandering amid the streets of Jamestown, but the aftermath of my account of that event.Instead of our...
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Chale Wote - festival for the hungry?
Posted on 18/07/2011
For weeks my inbox has been bombarded with event invites, information, flyers and promotional blurbs about an upcoming Street Art festival in Accra. In Jamestown, the poorest, most densely...
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In the news: Ghana today
Posted on 13/07/2011
Corpses have been removed from Tema morgue today, following an invasion of mice that were eating the bodies. It is not clear whether the hospital or family members are transferring the...
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