Positive Mental Attitude. Not.
You know? The “relentlessly cheerful” thing has been flagging a bit. Yeah, I did make my connection, running late in the back row of an Airbus that seemed, um, boarding-challenged. […]
Category Archives: africa
Not according to plan
Okay, that didn’t go according to plan. No problem. I’m stuck in London for the night. Or rather, in the Heathrow Sheraton, awaiting tomorrow’s Air France flight out to Monrovia […]
Tired on the outbound leg
You know that dictum that “work expands to fill the available time”? I’m slowly realizing that it also applies to travel preparations. Back when I was with Google.org, we’d occasionally […]
Lorien’s Crazy Day (and “Who Wants to Winter Over?”)
Three years ago today I was thinking about how crazy and complicated my life was. I was franticly throwing stuff together as I prepared to head down to the freakin’ […]
Westward From the Davis Strait
09 March, 2013. I can’t even tell where we are. I’ve slipped my windowshade up a crack, and the lone beam of sunlight cuts into the tunnel of this warm […]
The iHub
We’re sitting on a blue cloth couch, backs against a glass-fronted wall that bounds the heart of the 21st century here in Nairobi. For the past few weeks, the top […]
And Then a Bunch of Other Stuff Happened
Feel free to skip over this post. Nothing beautiful or evocative here – I just feel like I have some obligation to have a bit of continuity as to “what […]
E-Day Part 2: Night
North Highridge Primary School, Westlands, Nairobi. The look in her eyes is far away, and the recognition rises in me like a wave: this is it – this is the […]
E-Day, Part 1: Dawn
[I’m putting these posts up in sequence, with a one week delay from realtime.] The line stretches through the iron gate of the Kenya Technical Teachers College and half a […]
Day 4: Okay, that’s more like it
[I’m putting these posts up in sequence, with a one week delay from realtime. Feel free to skip this one if there’s too much to read – please tune in […]
David Pablo Cohn 