[by the Big Chill]. Among the parlor games played by people in the development biz is comparing how many countries they have visited. This exercise has all kinds of arbitrary rules — airports don’t count, for example, and you have to have stayed overnight. One of my personal benchmarks for this game is to consider […]
Enjoying sister’s pics and posts from India! What an intense place!
This e-mail excerpt is from our wonderful friend Terry, who Brian worked with in Macedonia way back when. Everything Terry does, she touches with vibrance, determination and good cheer — hence our name for her, “Terry Terrific”! Terry is now an international consultant for women’s rights and development. She has recently been working in […]
This is part of an e-mail that landed in my box from Ken Swanberg, a remarkably dedicated, “in the trenches” ag authority I have worked with in the past. I may be one of the few people who supports the administration’s new approach to Afghanistan, and shares Ken’s relative optimism. A Vietnam vet […]
(Not sure I have mentioned here that we refer to our 1996 Honda Odyssey, once the property of our Toronto kin, as “the Hottie.” Our new small car, of course, is “Miss Fit.”)
Delivery from Egypt took about five and a half months. I really can’t say what conclusions can be drawn from that […]
By some sort of complex Executive Branch voting mechanism that narrowed the options to one girl and one boy and then ended in the flip of a coin, Anna has become President of her 5th grade class. She now faces the question of whether to veto a bill by the Legislative Branch to ban criticism […]
In my world, you can never be sure a job is actually going to happen until you are on the plane, but this one planned for mid-January looks fairly solid. The trip is not for the Tanzania-based activity I had signed up for last spring, one that involved developing a commercial law curriculum for […]
When the blog’s author succumbs to Facebook, apparently.
Big Chill promises to write one thing a week if I commit to four. So committed. He is the more interesting of the two of us these days, though — what with all the readin’, cookin’, geetar-playin’, Espanol-learnin’, and engaged parentin’ he is doing. (Okay, […]