I’m watching from our ringside seats on the sixth floor of the Aloft Hotel as the human parade fades from the sidewalks outside the AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9. The New York skyline is rendered in peach and baby blue. A siren screams. A woman in bright fabric catches my eye. She is surrounded by […]
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Switching Hats
Well, here’s the big news: Bob and I are moving to Ghana, Africa for one year and will be leaving the United States in June! Columbia University is handling a grant-funded pilot program aimed at figuring out a process for turning fecal sludge into Biodiesel. Last week, Bob received a firm offer from their Department […]
Bob and I once swore we would never live in a place where breadfruit didn’t grow. We kept good to this promise for eight years and then re-entered the world of winter. A place where breadfruit doesn’t grow. A place where 99% of the population has no idea what breadfruit even is. But, as I […]
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ALL SAINTS DAY
When I woke up this morning, I knew I wasn’t in Denton anymore because I couldn’t hear any barking dogs. We were in a room a short walk from the French Quarter. This was my first trip to New Orleans. I haven’t seen so many people hanging out in the streets since we left Nicaragua. […]
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TO HELL AND BACK
A couple of days ago, Bob and I found ourselves in Hell, so named for its black limestone formations. The folks from Hell, Grand Cayman have made a cottage industry of selling trinkets. We parked next to the tour buses, strolled past the pods of cruise ship day trippers and the Canadian posing as Satan, […]