"You can't really train for high-altitude climbing" COBB: In 1987 I had unexpectedly been invited to go to South America to climb Aconcagua, at 22,841 the highest mountain in the Western [and Southern] Hemisphere.
Getting these jobs couldn't have come at a better or more stressful time for me: I learned I was unexpectedly pregnant as I was interviewing for my first white-collar, salaried position.
I might be on the women's page still if I hadn't unexpectedly been offered a job as social affairs editor at the BBC.
Back "home," I felt like an interloping Yankee, and yet, unexpectedly, I discovered I was growing as attached to the South as I had to the dolls.
The answer, unexpectedly, is "If I'm not working or training, I study".
I unexpectedly discovered there was a great deal more there for me.
"I unexpectedly needed to be in Copenhagen to meet with some colleagues," he said.
Quite unexpectedly, I was flooded with terror that I would not be able to live in the city of this air, of this river view and this feeling that was how I'd heard grace described.
Unexpectedly, I was asked to speak.
Then, unexpectedly, I was offered a place at a Quaker boarding school in the country.
Suddenly and unexpectedly I was staring at Khalid's bluish corpse, his head torn open by bullets, his chest pierced, as his friends and family wailed.
