The Kwaj Kat Blog

You can expect this topic to be pretty short since neither of these were big items on an elementary school kid’s list of priorities. Still, this deserves at least a little discussion since even we kids had to eat now and then, and occasionally had things to buy that our parents didn’t supply. Kwaj was a small place and thus not a shopping/dining Mecca, having only a few choices for either, but they were sufficient to meet our needs. (more…)

I wish I’d consistently kept a diary of some kind while I was on Kwaj so I’d have a detailed picture of what day-to-day life was like, but then I was only in elementary school and not prone to spending my free time writing in a book. Thus, all I have now are general recollections of island life as it was then, blurred over the years to the point where all but the most specific events have melded into a warm, but indistinct fabric of patchwork memories and random anecdotes. I thought I’d take some time today to write a bit about that fabric and of the life it represents. (more…)