There is something about Brooklyn. My life was never like this anywhere else I’ve ever lived. I make a plan for my day, a simple ordinary plan such as I’ll take My Kid to school and then I’ll come home and do some cleaning and some laundry. But, that’s not what happened. Instead and old friend, one of the first mommies I met when I moved to New York, is in town with her kids. They were at my daughter’s school and after the 4th grade publishing party we went and got coffee and walked and talked or sat and talked while her kids played in the park (because, unlike My Kid, they’re already on vacation). They used to live here, just a couple blocks away and now they live in Uganda.
I’ve never known anyone who lived in Uganda before. But, my friend said “Oh soon you will. There is a huge ex-pat community in Uganda. There are the people who work for the UN and NGO’s and then there are lots of people from places like Poland who have just moved there to see what kind of work and life they can make.”
So then I come home and I turn on my laptop and I check a clown site or two and I click on a link from another website to John Towsen’s website, that’s John Towsen of the book CLOWNS. Well guess what his website says! It says he’s not had time to update it much because he’s been working in Kampala, Uganda! Hey! That’s where my mommy friend from Fort Greene, Brooklyn lives now!