How waiting two months for a cup of coffee was the best thing I could do

Katherine Cassidy
4 min readJan 5, 2019
Never has a Black+Decker coffeemaker been so welcomed.

Waiting two months for a cup of fresh, steaming, brewed coffee wasn’t just the best thing I did, since November. It was the only thing I could do, with respect to getting exactly what I wanted.

Here’s the thing: I’m living in Sierra Leone now. Where, no, you can’t just head for the nearest coffee shop, sit down and order this immaculate…

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Katherine Cassidy

What matters more than educating girls in Africa? Ex-state legislator in Maine now living in Sierra Leone: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”