Apr
17
2025
Mitch Rhodes
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. A...
Apr
14
2025
Lora Nafziger
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. Auggie...
Mar
17
2025
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...
Dec
11
2024
Lora Nafziger
I love Advent. I love the darkening days and the cold and the gathering-in with preparation for Christmas and the Christchild. The week before Advent began we attended church (as is our practice these days) at the Catholic...
Nov
23
2024
Mitch Rhodes
This week I've been battling a cold. One that kept me home in bed on Monday. I did have an online lesson with my Nepali teacher that day, where of course one of the topics was my...
Nov
08
2024
Since Mitch's last blog post, three weeks have gone by in a whirlwind. October 19, the day Mitch wrote, ended our Dashain holiday time. Following those holidays the kids went back to school and on Sunday the 20th we...
Oct
19
2024
Our last blog entry left you with the news of massive flooding and numerous landslides in Nepal. I have since learned that half the annual rainfall for Nepal fell on that one weekend at the end of September. We...
Oct
02
2024
What to do?! This is a regular expression that we have picked up here. It is an expression of resignation, exasperation and realisation that what you were hoping is not going to be. Nepal is a fatalistic culture with...
