And even more briefings…
Second day of briefings. Somehow there are too many people and too few chairs this morning, and we have to improvise, squeezing in even tighter, elbow to elbow. But it’s […]
Mamba Point Briefings
Thursday passed in a cocoon. Got picked up by the bus at 8:20, shuttled to Mamba Point Hotel for briefings. And more briefings. Security briefings. Procedural briefings. Legal briefings. I […]
More reflections from Monrovia
[Doing much better today, but haven’t had a chance to write. Including, instead, some notes from last night.] Security briefing packet we’re handed on the bus into town is sobering […]
Monrovia vs. the comfort zone
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm so far out of my comfort zone I'm wondering if I left it in the overhead luggage compartment back at Roberts Airfield. It's been an […]
Like clockwork
Yup – I guess that's one of the gifts of age: having a better grip on the owner's manual of that mysterious device called "your body". Curled up as best […]
An uneasy start
This has been a strangely uneasy start. Usually there's a certain poetry to departures, something evoke the oft-misattributed quotation about how, once you have committed, the world lays a path […]
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?
Zach pointed out that I’ve gotten in the habit of only posting somewhat monolithic little narratives – complete thoughts – to the blog. Probably not going to have the chance […]
Liberia, a first pass
So…. Liberia. Yeah, the reactions I’m getting are pretty bipolar. They’re either “That’s so freakin’ amazing – how on earth did you get picked for something like that?!?” or “Why […]
Messing about in boats
Everyone knows the quotation, right? “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Yes, yes, Kenneth Graham, Wind in the […]
Here comes the sun
photo by Christy Schultz Okay, now for something a little less heavy. Sun is just now coming up. I like this time of year, when I’m typically up just a […]
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