Sabrina Lloyd

In only a few weeks we will turn the page and move to Nairobi. I wondered how I’d feel when the time came to pack up and leave my island....

I have been studying Doris Lessing for a class on postcolonial literature. I just came across her speech for her 2007 Nobel prize win and...

I have now sat exams on three continents, in 4 countries, and am just mesmerized at how beautifully illustrative the process has been on...

I’ve lifted my head briefly from my world of stories and sniffles. We outpaced all viruses all winter and yet I am felled right before my...

Dear Spring, I am going need to you to try a little harder. It was a very long, dark winter and while I appreciate your tenderness, I...

My silence is so full. In between hands reaching for me, my every moment heavy with things to do, care for, tend to, I steal chances,...

Fires still lit for early mornings and fading light at day’s end. Skies filled with a sometimes warm sun riding on still too crisp...

After 23 hours of flying my husband arrived from South Sudan and then just hours later we all packed into the car to drive up the Pacific...

I love this spot where the sky meets the sea. It is our playground. It is my heaven. Every day, rain or shine, bundled against cold, or...

It’s the beginning of spring. It’s spring break. The rhythm of schooled days have turned into a tossed windstorm of bike rides, beach...

My son and I found this piece of bark on one of our long beach walks. It is completely whole, round, having fallen off and come apart...

Be kind. I will show you how. Be strong in who you are, but flexible. Allow for change. Make room inside yourself for growth, even when...

Warm days in full sun trapping us in joy. A picnic on a colorful blanket catching shadows from buds just reaching up through the long...

Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? A dearest of my heart, a dear dear friend who knows all of my secrets (shhhhhh) told me today I seem...

As spring time approaches and the world around us wakes up, I am starting a new ritual  with my children. A few times a day we have to...

I am often asked how I do it. How I full time mom with a little one still at home, no family around to help, studying late into the night...

I was told it didn’t snow on the island. I was assured when looking at a house on the side of a mountain it did not snow on the island....

Deep within the dark Pacific Northwest winter I went to the island nursery to get some eucalyptus branches for my bathroom. It not being...

It all started with a kitchen. While searching and gathering everything I could about Quebec and Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto, learning...

Drowning in Uganda I lay on blogs as my raft. Floating in words, pictures, I found hope and inspiration. I’ve always loved biographies,...