Month: April 2022

  • Work Update

    The website and blog have gotten to the point where they are nearly done, for now. Ben and I are getting together tomorrow to make final adjustments. Then he is going to turn the website over to me and I am going to focus on some blog postings and perhaps receiving communications from interested readers.…

  • Excerpt from Chapter 1 of the Memoir

    But by May (1984) I wrote, “Libreville has now become an expensive, anxiety-producing, alien place.” So, tired of the noisy city where I had no real work to do, I returned to the interior, got off the train, and caught a taxi from the Eurotrag train station into the boisterous riverine town of Ndjolé (a…

  • Website Correspondence

    Thanks, Fred. That additional feedback helps. “professional and attractive” is what I want!! I’m paying Ben to design the website and show me how to maintain it after he is done. We are working together well now after a sluggish start. Normally he designs websites for small, profit-making businesses, so I am a different kettle…

  • Hectic but Exciting

    Times are hectic but exciting right now. Ben and I are working to finish the website that will be used to “get the word out” about the book, my memoir, me, my research in Africa. I like the way the website is coming along–black background, Times New Roman font, lots of photos, lots of blog…