A Cow, A Calf and Grief {Book Club}
Several years ago I had the opportunity to visit Lamu, Kenya, a centuries old Swahili town. The Swahili people have heritage from both East Africa and Oman, and the...
Author: Rachel Kahindi
A Cow’s Blessing {Book Club}
Recently, I read a comparison of cultures based on whether a person should ask for something or wait for it to be offered. In the asking cultures, a person...
A Cow Thinks Generously {Book Club}
This week’s section of The Milk Lady of Bangalore starts out with happiness. I was curious about the World Happiness Report and looked it up – in futility as...
The Cow in the Elevator {Book Club}
They say you can’t go home again, but we try, don’t we? Then, we find that for all the ways we have changed, everything at home stayed the same....
Thankfulness {Book Club}
When my sons were babies, we had a few books of prayers for children. One was my oldest son’s favorite, and we read it every night. He loved it...
Weapons Against Evil {Book Club}
In A Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L’Engle spends a lot of time discussing the responsibility of an author of children’s books. She led a seminar with educators before writing...
The Story Is Real {Book Club}
The past two weeks, my sons wanted me to read them the Akimbo books by Alexander McCall Smith. They’re about an African boy whose father is a ranger at...
Not a Waste of Time {Book Club}
“By the big red barn in the great green field…” So begins my eldest son’s first favorite book, Big Red Barn. I could probably type out the entire story...
Social Butterfly {Book Club}
Over the course of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Eleanor underwent a drastic transformation. She reminds me of a butterfly. It’s not a perfect metaphor, but the transformation is...
Social Life {Book Club}
My kids are fully capable of making their own breakfast and lunch, but they usually ask me to fix them food. Twenty times a day. That particular day, my...
