Yet another way in which I am Uncool to my kids
The thing about getting the kids strapped into the car on the way to school is that it’s like rolling a Magic Eight Ball with 50 billion sides. Something’s going […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Some Liberia pics up, Ghana pics yet to come
I’ve got about 400 pictures from Liberia+Ghana on my local disk. Have uploaded a representative smattering of the Liberia ones to http://picasaweb.google.com/david.cohn/Liberia2010; with any luck (or discipline), I’ll get the Ghana […]
Sliding Liberia
[Yikes – just realized that I never posted this. Slightly out of chronological order, sorry!] Final leg of the flight home to San Francisco. Last night the gibbous moon rose […]
Seat 64K
There’s something unearthly about being in seat 64K on a British Airways 747. The fact that an airplane can be large enough to have 64 rows and still lift itself […]
"This is why we practice"
This has been Glen’s constant refrain the past few days. Recall that we’re in Ghana as an advance trip for a group that’s going to be brought over early next […]
Way the heck beyond Kumasi
Ten p.m.in Accra and we’ve been going since godawful early this morning. Our little band of adventurers has been to Kumasi, been celebrated by schools full of rural girls who […]
Into the Ashanti Kingdom
Tired this morning, waiting for the morning flight to Kumasi. Yeah, another morning, another flight. By Friday I will have been on 10 different aircraft run by four different airlines. […]
Quotable: new perils of the internet
“Next, I wondered if anyone had registered http://www.compassionisnotaspectatorsport.com, and no one had. So – click! – there went another five dollars. It was like ‘magnetic refrigerator poetry’ meets ‘drunk dialing’.” […]
Superpowers
Ethiopian Airlines, flight 928 leaving Monrovia. Such a wild mashup of cultures – men with heavy Liberian accents, women in fabulous Ghanian dresses, and the Ahmaric (or is it Akan […]
