Summoned by the General
Well over a hundred data collectors are bouncing around the Colombian countryside, working on surveying over 20,000 households for the evaluation I’m working on. Twenty of them got stopped yesterday in a remote county...
Back from Kaintuck – with the Moron Brothers!
Kyna, Dad and I went to Kentucky. You can’t go to Kentucky without seeing horses: This one is a stallion that is rented out for his… prowess. If you know what I mean....
Working, working, working
I read an old article by Oliver Sacks yesterday, about the Sabbath and keeping it holy. He was raised Orthodox in the Jewish faith and the Sabbath was really the Sabbath. In Washington DC...
Persian cuisine, and a domestic shorthair cat
I’m thinking about my friend Shane today, so I’m going to write about food. I had an amazing meal last weekend with a nice new friend here in Bogota, Raha. Here she is explaining...
Some better news… the best!
Kyna and Lauren came to visit me last week and it was a riot! They became summarily addicted to limonada de coco en leche – much more like a milkshake than a beverage. Here...
I can’t buckle my bra
You know when a little kid falls of a swingset and starts wailing, half from pain and half from the surprise of suddenly being in the dirt? That was my Monday. I’m running along...