“And if your friends jumped off a cliff, would you too?”Mom, I’m sorry to report that, after all these years, I finally have a definitive answer to that question. Mind […]

Westbound, JFK to SFO. I fished through my pockets for receipts from the trip, and only have one: GHc 42 – about $21, for dinner that first night on the […]

I have to capture this moment, right now, right in the thick of it. Papers and mobile phones are strewn across the floor amid Styrofoam cartons of take-out noodles and […]

This is a story told to me by my friend Peter Dolan. It isn’t a story about Africa, but I was telling it to someone as we inched through traffic, […]

[from yesterday, late in the flight] I didn’t feel it this time. Strange – that thing I call “the magic of departures”, the moment when the carousel of the journey […]