“For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it created a haze… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“I finally decided to adopt guidelines rather than set a budget. If it could be done at home, skip it. If I had done… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.” — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“What I did not realize was that I also hoped to have an epiphany, to discover a cause to devote my life to, a… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Writing [my journal] was the only way I could keep track of the last experience before a new one came along and erased the… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust,… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.” — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat with God and get answers to all my questions.… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“People dream. They talk about escaping from it all. Their friends and family diligently listen and politely ignore it when the ruminations fade into… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment - the tickle of the rain… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image
“In a tree-shaded pasture, seventeen adult tortoises randomly stood around. As I fed them spinach leaves sold by an opportune vendor, they tolerated my… — Kristine K. Stevens Copy Share Image