a gratitude practice
Posted in africa, history in the making, International, senegal on Mar 23rd, 2009
Can you think of a better way to spend 3 minutes and 51 second than watching/listening to a rap video filmed in Senegal, sung in French? I can’t. The beautiful pink building with a sweeping staircases in the background is the House of Slaves Museum on Gorée Island. A slave trading port preserved, so [...]
Posted in daily, International, senegal, travel on Mar 13th, 2009
Google recently updated to include a lot more detail in four african countries’ maps – Senegal included. Diene and I had so much fun finding his hometown, Yayeme (spelled Yayem on the map). How fun to be able to see the road I walked from Fimela, where the bus would drop me off, to Yayeme, [...]
Posted in daily, Education, friends, International, travel on Aug 21st, 2008
I have been full of nostalgia lately. Memories of the past ten years have been invading my mind with a vividness I hadn’t realized was still there. I think about my days at Miami University and I can smell the coffee machine in the lobby of the building where all my early morning psychology classes [...]
Posted in daily, International, Madison on Aug 5th, 2008
Score! I won two tickets to see Habib Koite play tonight at the Majestic. The best part – when I looked to double check the start time, I realized that Tani Diakite is playing too. Tani is a great Madison musician who has become a friend. We just saw him play on Friday at the [...]
Posted in International, travel, writing on Dec 19th, 2007
Brave New Traveler published one of my articles today: Five Techniques for Surviving Political Debates. The thrill of reading my words in print hasn’t worn off yet. I hope that it never does. What is super cool is that BNT tracks page view and so I can tell that over 600 people have looked at [...]
An expression of gratitude for all that is good in my life.
