here. This will be my [blog]home from now on.  No promises on how often it will be updated, but I’m making a rejuvenated effort to make regular contributions, in conjunction with some other things I’m doing.  More to follow.  Best to add it to your RSS feed… so you’ll know when there are updates.  happy writing! [...]

It’s snowing in Portland, Oregon. Has been for days. Besides watching my crazy neighbor out the window behind my computer screen do things like build an ice sculpture, set up a feeding station for squirrels, and come outside to survey her accomplishments every five minutes, and between desperately checking email, facebook, and online news for [...]

My time in Mauritania is counting down in hours – less than ten left. Things have been so rushed and chaotic that I haven’t had much of an opportunity to reflect. Goodbyes were brief, and blessings were abundant. Walking away from something so significant is a strange thing to do, unintuitive and painful. But, in the [...]

Riding in the back of a truck across the island between the three branches of the Senegal River that separates Senegal and Mauritania, I sat next to Aminata, a severely malnourished infant (it’s difficult to distinguish age with Marasmus). An old woman, who may have been her grandmother was caring for her, taking her to [...]