Sabrina Lloyd

I turn on my computer to see there has been another mass shooting in the States. I turn on the TV and see a news special about all the...

A very famous one, probably familiar to you all, from Mary Oliver. It seems to fit the moment well and I love revisiting it. I seem to do...

It's hard living in two places. Both offer us something so rich and important for our souls and happiness. On the island, it's the...

I've been watching the George Floyd trial happening in the States. I know I shouldn't. I couldn't watch the videos from the day when it...

The Layers BY STANLEY KUNITZ I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of...

Could you never tell a lie? Not even a small one. How you are, what you think, what you need. I listened to a podcast this week about...

This one sinks me every time I read it, and I read it often. It's by RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITHS, from her collection Seeing The Body. House...

I listened to something this week that has burrowed deep within me. I don't think I have ever been more moved by a podcast, heard...

Life is just better when you read more poetry. I have a few favorites that sit on my desk, poems I reread when I feel the need to be with...

It's been a long week. Not much sleep, news of countries closing down again, cases rising here in Kenya. It's been scary. The virus has...

Insomnia found me a few years ago. It comes in waves, like storms. Sometimes it is only for a night, other times it lingers for what...

Long week. It's hot in Kenya. Bone melting hot. But the long rains are coming and they bring their own difficulty so I lean into the sun...

I read the most beautiful sentence today. It was in reference to hardship, change, desire for a more fulfilling life. We can choose the...

I’ve been on this expat journey years longer than a decade now. From one country to another, we move and settle only to uproot once...