Note 5: Life in Place

If you're just joining: this series documents the process of designing a 90-day place-based inquiry in West Africa, in real time. Start with the first post to follow from the beginning.

Expenses at home. I woke up the other night, grabbed a pen and paper, and wrote car insurance on it. I had forgotten to account for it in the place-based inquiry planning document I am building. It already includes expenses like storage, cellular service, and credit card bills. But these other expenses aren’t in the planning document yet. They are the ones that wake me up in the middle of the night, the ones I am likely to forget, the ones that have the greatest consequences.