I continue my fiction essay BeachGames. To be a book. Maybe. Someday. I almost published it last spring but something was wrong. I’m pleased I waited. So now I’ve ventured out of Rio for surely beach games are everywhere. So I will return to Cuba soon to continue. Then Thailand . Then Cartagena . Always …
Hiking around Jockeys Ridge on the outer banks is mostly a barefoot pleasure. Except in late summer out come the stickers I’ve never known the official name my whole ouch pull out the sticker burr life. Still sunset from this old shifting dune is the place to be. Even on the coldest day of winter …
Hi everyone, this is my last post on burndiary, it has been challenging and fun! Thank @davidalanharvey for creating this wonderful chaos and @diegorlando for setting order to it. And thanks to you all for your support! Before leaving you, I have to say I decided to pay a one-year school fee to Natasha ( …
One uncle of mine used to tell me: “Don’t believe those who say that aging is a process. One day you’ll wake up, and you’ll be old” This is exactly how I feel after my first 16 days in Africa. But it’s good, that’s probably why I love my job so much despite everything. :) …
Kesteleyn An-Sofie A Lamb Named Beauty A Lamb named Beauty shows the life of two twin sisters Kimberly and Gwendolyn. The series started in 2007, when the sisters were 10 years old. They live in a Flemish village in Belgium, close to where I grew up. I tried to give a candid impression …
@simona.ghizzoni posting from Ethiopia. Almost time to say goodbye to the Waredube people and drive back to Addis. :) #uncutproject #journalismgrants @ezuccala
@simona.ghizzoni posting from Ethiopia. The Waredube are one of the last tribes practicing the most severe form of #FGM, infibulation. But in the past 3 years women created watchgroups to monitor FGM activities in their community. FGM is illegal in Ethiopia. In the pic, Waredube women dancing. #uncutproject #journalismgrants
Hi! This is @simona.ghizzoni posting from Ethiopia. These are the last few days of our trip, that brought us to Kenya and Ethiopia to follow women communities fighting against #FGM . In the pic, the landscape of the Wabe river, Oromyia valley. #uncutproject #journalismgrants
@simona.ghizzoni posting from Ethiopia. We got caught by a rain and sand storm this morning in the Waredube village. #uncutproject #journalismgrants #ethiopia
@simona.ghizzoni posting from Ethiopia on day 8. This is Nimo, a12 years old girls of Waredube community have a bath in the Wabe river. #uncutproject #journalismgrants #ethiopia
