Just to confirm the above, I have never been a smoker, even casually, but the internet tells me that I’ve been doing the same thing just by breathing air in the Kathmandu Valley the past few weeks.

We are in our second year here in Nepal and now doing things for a second time. That means we are also thinking of what new things we would like to do for the first time.

Lora Nafziger This year for Christmas, Mitch and I embarked on a different kind of milestone. Instead of being the ones that travelled “home” to our families, our young adult sons travelled to a new home here in Kathmandu to celebrate Christmas with us and their younger brothers. Our older sons are studying at universities […]

Lora Nafziger At the end of January I travelled to Tansen. This is the location to the west of Kathmandu where the Tansen Mission Hospital is located. I went by myself, and while I don't love travelling alone, I did love the freedom for conversation, time outside and reading novels (I completed 3 in the [...]