A year ago ….
A year ago this time I was arriving back home from leading a service tour to Tanzania with a group of some of the most inspirational, talented, kind, loving and committed Americans you could ever meet....
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Facing Female Circumcision Head On!
The cover of last week’s New York Sunday Times featured an article about communities in Senegal that are standing up against the ancient and widespread practice of female circumcision, or Female...
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Waiting for the Rains
The bicycle passes, old and rusted, pieced together from dozens of others, tires patched time and time again. The back is loaded with six large jerrycans filled with water. The rider’s sinewy leg...
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FAITH
My faith has always been unconventional. I have never been able to fit myself into the box of any church or organized religion. Messages that ring true to me come from all over — Christianity,...
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The boy lays on a frayed woven mat whose colors have long since faded over the years. His contorted legs are supported by an old cushion over which his two crooked, clubbed bare feet hang. His thin...
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With Tanzania Maasai Women's Art
We walk quite a ways from the Chief’s boma, stepping over and around thorny acacias, to reach the women who are already gathered under the single tree that casts even a hint of shade, a bit of...
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Human Nature
The conversation around our breakfast table has taken a marked turn for the worse this week. Yesterday it was the Kony2012 campaign. “Who is Joseph Kony?” Katharine, our 7-year-old daughter, asks. I...
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Mr. Cheaper Price
Being a consumer, a white American consumer, in Tanzania can be perplexing and exhausting. You know that you pay more for absolutely everything, and you are fine with that… For a while, at least. In...
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Africa.com features FAITH!
With Josephine and her daughter Charity Africa.com has featured this story of how I found the divine — or perhaps how the divine found me — last month in Tanzania....
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