Sep 22, 2015
Well over a hundred data collectors are bouncing around the Colombian countryside, working on surveying over 20,000 households for the evaluation I’m working on. Twenty of them got stopped yesterday in a remote county not far from the birthplace of the FARC....
Sep 18, 2015
Kyna, Dad and I went to Kentucky. You can’t go to Kentucky without seeing horses: This one is a stallion that is rented out for his… prowess. If you know what I mean. It’s creepy in that they tie up the mares to whom he is… assigned. He...
Sep 8, 2015
I read an old article by Oliver Sacks yesterday, about the Sabbath and keeping it holy. He was raised Orthodox in the Jewish faith and the Sabbath was really the Sabbath. In Washington DC I used to go to Shabbat dinner with Zahara and other friends and there was...
Sep 3, 2015
I’m thinking about my friend Shane today, so I’m going to write about food. I had an amazing meal last weekend with a nice new friend here in Bogota, Raha. Here she is explaining the dishes: [wpvideo W5bbm7rk] [wpvideo 6FxkhzVe] She made us feel really...
Aug 27, 2015
Kyna and Lauren came to visit me last week and it was a riot! They became summarily addicted to limonada de coco en leche – much more like a milkshake than a beverage. Here they are on opposite sides of me at San Jorge Pesquera in the small city of Armenia, the...
Aug 26, 2015
You know when a little kid falls of a swingset and starts wailing, half from pain and half from the surprise of suddenly being in the dirt? That was my Monday. I’m running along with my favorite Colombian running partners (Jaime and his Great Dane, Teo), on our...