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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Chronicles of Home: On Trees
The thing about the perfect snowfall is that it’s only perfect so long as it falls where it belongs – out of doors. This year’s December 21st family trip to the tree farm, however, didn’t give us much time to let our mighty pine dry out before plunking it in its stand to decorate. We sped up the process by picking off clumps of snow by hand, vacuuming branches, and laying down some trusty old blue tarp to capture the rapidly forming puddles. It all worked out in the end. I’m also posting this picture of Kaylan so gracefully catching snowflakes in her mouth, in hopes that I can hear her shriek from across the Atlantic.
Jen grew up on a dead end, dirt road in the middle of the woods on the Oswego River in Fulton, NY. After getting her BA in Biology from Cornell University in 2004, she went on to get her Masters in Health Sciences (MHS) with a focus on health communication from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in Baltimore, MD. She was based in Kampala, Uganda for the better part of 2008-2010, and now lives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where she works for JHSPH's Center for Communication Programs (CCP) as the Technical Advisor for Social and Behavior Change Communication on an HIV, family planning and maternal and child health project. She also likes referring to herself in the third person.
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