Author

Timothy Bascom

Timothy Bascom has published essays in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, The Other Side, and the in-flight magazine of China Airlines (Dynasty). He is the author of the novel Squatters’ Rites (New Day Press, Philippines) and a collection of essays titled The Comfort Trap (InterVarsity Press). His is currently writing a memoir about his childhood in Ethiopia and he earned an MFA in the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa. [2004]

CONTRIBUTIONS

Nonfiction

Mar 01 2011

A Vocabulary for My Senses

After six months at language school in northern Ethopia, we finally moved south to our first mission station. Father, whose career as a doctor had been on hold, was posted to a hospital near the town of Soddo, in Wallayta district. There, we occupied a real house instead of a temporary apartment.