I took this photo at Swayambunath in Kathmandu, Nepal. In the background is a Buddhist stupa, while the foreground shows smaller Hindu shrines. To me it represents the peaceful, beautiful combination of two major world religions in a single society.
I took this photo during one of my visits to a silk weaving group in my community. I was located in a subdistrict of 13 villages. Almost every house in every village had a weaving loom -all day you would hear the wood hitting the loom to make the...
During Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World), our campers were paired with local orphans for a games day. This particular game consisted of a relay where participants had to race towards a plate of flour to out M&Ms with their mouths. Predictably, it...
During our first visit to our permanent site of Tutrakan, site mate Michael (L) and I found ourselves invited to a birthday celebration for the deputy mayor and mayor.
I took this photo while biking on the road from my home in Spaldings, Jamaica to my work at Knox Community College. The photo evokes the scents and sounds of rural Jamaica to me.
Work; Women in Peace Corps; Education; Girls' education; Environment
I took this photo on the north coast of Jamaica of students from my "Environmental Awareness" class at Knox Community College. This is was the first time most of them had ever been to the ocean or beach. I took them tidepooling and swimming. To get...
This photo was taken at the beach in Alligator Pond, Jamaica in 2004. The south coast of Jamaica has a large ing community, and when the morning's catch in brought in, people from local towns would come down to the beach to haggle for . Some of my...
This is a photo taken in 2003 of where we would hand wash and dry our laundry. We used rainwater collected in a cistern on the roof. We could wash our clothing most of the year, unless the dry season ran long, when we might be out of water for...
I took this photo in 2003 while we were in Peace Corps training living with our host family. In the photo (left to right) is my husband, Bryan Murray, our fellow Volunteer Michael Loftin, and our host dad Mr. Rochester. Playing dominoes on outdoor...
The sheep herders in the Bran area of rural Romania sometimes pick up and carry a lamb who is not keeping pace with the herd. This lamb got a ride on the herder's donkey.