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Puck’s Poem

February 15, 2019

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Caroline Brogden. A few weeks ago, I looked up from my book and started to weep. A memory of a boy I knew in Samos surfaced, unprompted, and sucker punched … Read more

A Meditation on “No” in Samos, Greece

December 19, 2018

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Caroline Brogden. Today I spent two hours transferring grocery bags filled with feces into larger garbage bags. Human feces. They hung from brambles, dripped from the sodden seams, and sat, … Read more

Pre-Departure: This One’s For the Butterflies

October 8, 2018

The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Caroline Brogden. In the interest of full disclosure, I know very few things to be absolutely true, that being truth number one. Almost nothing is certain, so it seems. I … Read more