Megs the Wanderer

Megs the Wanderer

Stories From Life's Journey

  • ABOUT
    • PEACE CORPS
  • TOPICS
    • Peace Corps
    • travel
    • teaching
    • culture
    • Indonesia
  • STORIES
    • Night Train to Colombo
    • Keep Spirit
    • Chatting with a Monk in Thailand
    • Elections and Hope in Sri Lanka
    • Wandering in Wales
    • Meeting Krishna
    • Wedding Crasher
    • Hildegard’s Abbey
    • Disfigurement and Grace
    • An invitation to the journey
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • The Journey
    • Life in Indonesia
  • BLOG
  • Bright Future

    Bright Future

    Voices, squeals, and laughter echo in the afternoon air as raindrops start to patter on the metal roof above. Girls and boys are scattered around the basketball court. A pack chases each other, dribbling a basketball. A lanky girl with hair pulled back in a ponytail squares up and shoots with great form, the ball…

    megsthewanderer

    30 August 2022
    culture, photo, story, travel
    culture, Guatemala, Lake Atitlan, Mayan, photo, story, travel
  • Beautiful Lake Atitlan

    Beautiful Lake Atitlan

    Some photos at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala (15 August 2022)

    megsthewanderer

    29 August 2022
    photo, travel
    gallery, Guatemala, Lake Atitlan, photo, travel
  • A Holy Cacophony

    A Holy Cacophony

    The sanctuary—lit by hundreds of candles set upon tables and on the floor that stretch the length of the open space—smells of incense, candles, sweat and the grass and pine that cover the floor. Large portraits and figures of the pantheon of Catholic saints line the walls, as people move freely around, praying or offering…

    megsthewanderer

    25 August 2022
    culture, story, travel
    Catholic, Chiapas, Mayan, Mexico, religion, travel
  • The Call of the Quetzal

    The Call of the Quetzal

    Veiled in morning fog, the pyramid emerges, revealing a mystical structure more than 1,000 years old. Situated in a large grassy square surrounded by smaller structures and jungle, the pyramid’s grandeur towers above the gawking tourists below. Sweat drips from my forehead as the fog fades. With the sounds of birds around, few tourists have…

    megsthewanderer

    24 August 2022
    story, travel
    gallery, Mayan, Mexico, photo, story, temple, travel, Yucatan
  • Spring 2022

    Spring 2022

    Emerging from winter, opening to spring. Photos taken in Skagit Valley and Guemes Island in Washington state, April 28-30, 2022.

    megsthewanderer

    21 May 2022
    photo
    flower, gallery, photo, Photography
  • Saying Goodbye

    Saying Goodbye

    The rain came, and it seemed nonstop for an entire month. Streets flooded, water rushed under bridges, and still the rain fell. July 2018 brought floods to areas of the Sichuan province, drenching my final days in China. With mixed emotions, I looked out the window of my 15th floor apartment and sighed. From atop…

    megsthewanderer

    7 June 2021
    Peace Corps, teaching
    2018, China, goodbye, memory, Peace Corps, rain, Sichuan, teaching
  • You Are Not Alone: A Story of Friendship and Hope

    You Are Not Alone: A Story of Friendship and Hope

    This building haunts me. Its imposing architecture and location rend it as the focal point across the sparse college campus at Mianyang Teachers’ College. Long gray buildings no more than 10 years old with paint already cracked span the wide roads. Small trees still growing line the road leading toward it from the main gate.…

    megsthewanderer

    17 August 2020
    Peace Corps, story
    2017, China, Mianyang, suicide prevention, you are not alone
  • Semester of Storytelling

    Semester of Storytelling

    In the Spring Semester of 2018 at 绵阳师范学院 (Mianyang Teachers’ College), I explored storytelling with my Sophomore classes. I guided them each week through the basics of the hero’s journey, genre, and sequencing toward a final group project. The project was to form a story, write the dialogue, and finally film themselves performing their story.…

    megsthewanderer

    14 August 2020
    Peace Corps, story, teaching
    2018, China, Mianyang, story, teaching
  • Blog resumes

    Several drafts and ideas for posts have sat unfinished over the past year. Days, weeks, and months passed, with occasional attempts to start writing again; however, each time if I started at all, I found I lacked the concentration to follow through. A few sentences here, a blank page there, an empty and scattered mind…

    megsthewanderer

    12 August 2020
    Uncategorized
    2020, update
  • Awaken

    Awaken

    Awaken to Spring’s arrival. Photos taken on March 30, 2019 on the University of Washington Campus in Seattle.

    megsthewanderer

    7 April 2019
    photo
    gallery, photo, seasons, Seattle, spring
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