Hope Emerges

The fourth of July represents, for many Americans, freedom.  It is, so many would like to believe, a solution to...

What ifs can be dangerous; at least that is how most of us react to the idea when we hear...

I can never remember hearing the words, “this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.”  I know...

Sometimes life is extremely painful.  We face extraordinary doses of wicked problems, obstacles, and conundrums.  That we survive is a...

Nairobi looks like any city in a developing country.  As I look I hear the echo of Dominic’s words.  “Nairobi...

It hit Whitney first, Zanzibar food poisoning!  Cherry was second and Carli third.  As we collectively struggled to make our...

I have always enjoyed cooking with spire.  One of my favorite restaurants serves food based on a culinary history of...

Animals in zoos are real.  They live, die, and survive.  Whatever this reality is, it isn’t the same as life...

There is at least one thing that will come to mind when I think of Africa that will probably not...

I write ten minutes away from a Massai village.  I was there as a Massai Elder’s guest.  We sat in...