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One woman’s nightmare is another man’s dinner.
For your sake and mine, this is going to be a really short post about a really big thing. And that thing is a Cane Rat. I’m not afraid of much, but I am jump-on-the-table terrified of mice and their...
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Despair & hope in the Delta.
Traveling from Appalachia to the Arkansas Delta was a shock to me. I thought I was prepared to see poverty – heck, I’ve been seeing poverty this whole year of travel with Heifer – but there was...
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Haunting Cambodia.
Cambodia is not easy to understand, and even harder to forget. For starters, it’s the scene of the most horrendous genocide in the last century when, from 1975-1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge government...
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Good morning, Vietnam!!
It’s impossible for someone of my (advanced) age to visit Vietnam without being overwhelmed with memories of the Vietnam War. I visited Hanoi and the North in 2005 and found myself blindsided by...
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Thanks4giving!
The following faces have been brought to you by … you. You see, in 100,000 miles of travel to Heifer projects around the world this year, one thing has been utterly consistent. People will take my...
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Muli Bwanji, Malawi!
Before I got to Malawi, a flurry of well-traveled friends informed me that it was sure to be my favorite country ever. Being a bit of a contrarian (to be honest, a total hard-head), I was pretty sure...
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2 goats for Janet.
Whenever I’m running off my mouth, thinking that my life is stressful, I hope I can remember Janet Dzonzi from Msendaluzi village in Malawi. And just stand in total gratitude for the life I’ve been...
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What I cooked in Malawi!
My hands-down favorite day in Malawi – and one I will never forget — is the day we visited Chimuti village in Mchinji District and the women dragged me into the “kitchen” to cook the national dish of...
View ArticleHunger (No games.)
The first thing you notice when you travel from southern Cameroon to the Far North is that suddenly, everyone seems a little bit taller and a whole lot thinner. The people of the Far North remind me of...
View ArticleDead Hen Walking
If you are a woman living in a village in the Far North of Cameroon, chances are you’ve been raising chickens since you were knee-high to a grasshopper. And chances are, every year in the cold dry...
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