I have started a newsletter over at Substack. It is called Lusaka Letters and I intent to write it twice monthly to begin with. I have not decided to stop publishing here on the blog completely, but have felt uninspired to blog recently and found the newsletter form more exiting right now. I write it like it is a letter home, or away, to someone. … Continue reading Lusaka Letters
As usual when I don’t have time to publish something here it is because I am extra busy. Things happening in my life that takes me away from the writing momentum I need, to be able to create. And this time the things that happened where joyful and fun. My parents have been visiting and we took a trip to Northern Zambia that we have … Continue reading Thoughts on seasons
The time we live in have had me thinking a lot about the privileges I have in my life right now. For example such a simple thing as a safe home. It is very sad to think about how many people around the world that does not have a home, none the less a safe one. I have one. My family have one, we are … Continue reading What makes a home?
Sometimes life just spins on and I don´t have space to put down in words what is going on. I journal less, I write less and I come up with less ideas for the blog. But one thing I always do is to snap photos on a daily basis. The smartphone is the best thing ever for me when it comes to taking photos. Before … Continue reading The Changala life through my Camera roll
February has so far been an interesting experience. Schools are up and running so my main job is to be the kids chauffeur and do the school runs. When I come back home in the mornings I have time, for almost the first time in my life, to do whatever I feel like. And what I do right now is mostly my studying, writing and … Continue reading Article in The Buzz Zambia
January is finally coming to it´s end. It has felt like 90 days instead of soon 30. Everybody keeps telling me “January is always long”, but I have never really felt like that before. In Sweden I always felt it was grey, cold and dark, but February has less days and feels as grey, cold and dark. This year though, January has showed it´s true … Continue reading Monthly wrap up
New year, new dreams? For me, not really. Same dreams and time is just moving on. To be honest I had nothing against leaving 2021 behind. It was a year of great things, like a intercontinental move, but also a year of loss. My grand mother died in April, we left Sweden behind (I love living in Zambia but when having two countries there is … Continue reading Farm dreams
Have been thinking about storytelling lately. The whole idea of stories and how we bring them to the world. A lot of it has to do with me studying creative writing, I guess, but it also struck me as I share more in Stories on Instagram while we are settling in here in Lusaka. Struck me, as in what stories am I telling through the … Continue reading Thinking about storytelling
We arrived! Actually, we arrived almost exactly five weeks ago. We have been very busy so have not had any time to even reflect on arriving. I am still in the phase were I am realizing that we are staying here, and are not only here on vacation. I keep looking at my weather app (Swedes, you know what I am talking about), and thinking … Continue reading Lusaka we are in (and the first month has been hectic)
Summer is sweeping by and we are trying our best to enjoy it at the same time as not being to sentimental, since this is the last Swedish summer in a while. We have been to the beach, walked in the woods, barbecued and biked. Me and Alice read a lot (check out my bookstagram if you feel like getting some reading tips). Mayani is … Continue reading Small snippets of Summer from my camera roll
Jenny Changala Writes 