africa

Are You The Lion? Or The Gazelle?

June 17, 2011

A student came into his lesson last week wearing a shirt from his school’s track team. The back of it read: In case your browser has difficulty displaying the image, I’ve included it below. No problems viewing? Read it again anyway . . . Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it [...]

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Gather Your Troops

March 2, 2011

I hate asking for help. I usually pride myself on autonomy and self-reliance. And, I’ve recently been reminded how extremely limiting that can be. “Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller) For a while now, I have been planning a project titled Amaloboozi. I will be traveling to [...]

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Want To Travel? Do It NOW.

October 20, 2010

We didn’t travel much when I was a kid. Maybe to Indiana a time or two to see the grandparents. But no Disneyland, no Grand Canyon and definitely no trips out of the country. My first time off of US soil was exactly seven years ago, when I got this hairbrained idea to go study [...]

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4+ Jerks, 1 Lesson

September 29, 2010

Bikers, travelers, and musicians . . . oh my! All about the analogies today, let me explain four ways that I’ve learned the same lesson. And we begin with a story . . . (1) I’m driving down Powell Boulevard in Portland yesterday morning when a motorcyclist (let’s call him Biker 1) blazes past me, [...]

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Creating A Plan Of Attack

August 25, 2010

Darn you, Joel Runyon. After an insanely busy week, I was so looking forward to taking a few days to kick back and do as little as humanly possible. But no . . . You have to go and post this last week, sending me head-first into a process of analyzing what I’m doing with [...]

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Ghana: Day One

May 5, 2010

Wednesday, October 8, 2003: I haven’t been in Accra for two hours yet and I’m already so overwhelmed by everything I’ve experienced, I don’t think I can remember enough to recollect it all here in words. The plane touched down at Kotoka International Airport at 8:05pm Ghana time. I’d been advised not to accept help [...]

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When in Rome . . .

January 1, 2010

(Updated: April 14, 2010) I may not look it, but I love food! Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am one of the world’s least picky eaters. Most people have at least a short list of foods that they will not- or cannot- eat. I have no such list. In the past, I used to [...]

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