By Saurav Rajbhandari As a child, waking up early in the morning for school was always a struggle for me. School started at 6:45am, and by 6:00am I had to reach the bus stop. Even during my undergraduate studies classes began at 7:00am, so there was a lot of effort to...
By Dean Whittaker The Poem, “If,” by Rudyard Kipling comes to mind as I reflect on the times. Here’s a section from it as a reminder and a link to the entire poem: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If...
By Jami Gibson I came home on New Year’s Eve afternoon to a brightly-colored present waiting on my front porch. Inside was a beautiful journal and a card from a close friend with a challenge to keep daily entries for 2017. Now for just over a month, I’ve been spending...
By Sharad KC Every week our team in Michigan and Kathmandu meet online for a weekly update. While most of our conversation is about the work we do, we also spend a few minutes talking about three things we’re grateful for over the previous week. This is by far the...
By Sindhu Bhattarai I love to travel and explore. My bucket list consists of many places home and abroad; mostly places from my native country Nepal. I recently had a wonderful experience of traveling to Rara Lake, the largest lake of Nepal. From Kathmandu it took us...
