Albuquerque Dawn
“Remember: all the things really worth doing in life are pretty awful, but the converse isn’t true. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell the difference.” -The Unfinished Book of Parental Wisdom […]
Atomic Tourism
I get the feeling there are going to be a lot of posts over the next month written from the cheap blue leather seats of a Delta Airlines flight. Eastbound, […]
Inadvisable
“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 […]
The answer is 135 (in case you were wondering)
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 […]
The Future, Plus Noodles and Rice
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 […]
Mr. Duncan and the Cats
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, […]
This is the story of how we begin to remember…
[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 […]
Three Crazy Days
Crazy week already, and it’s only just starting. Sun’s coming up, somewhere over the Atlantic. My watch says it’s 7:45, but that’s miles and hours ahead, in Accra. Back home […]
Test Pilot
It was not an auspicious start to the morning. Tiptoeing downstairs in the pre-dawn dark to avoid disturbing anyone, I misjudged the last step and clattered down to the landing on […]
And was Jerusalem builded here…?
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? On a day like this, it’s […]
David Pablo Cohn 