Well, it was the holidays - I am just a teeny bit late. Our holiday began with the ugliest cinnamon bread ever. I brought Special Ingredients and Arcane Baking Equipment from the U.S. with the express goal of making these pretty little cinnamon bread cakey things in...
A heartily documented trip to some of the most beautiful sites in and around Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. Not to be missed!
Kilimanjaro from the air Two months in Nairobi, though it seemed like more. It's bad form to say so... but driving around Nairobi never put anyone in a good mood. Mostly it puts you at a standstill. And how come I was always on the side of the car with the hot sun...
Kampollyball I love volleyball. I haven't played for a long while, but I had occasion to play in Kampala again after a years-long break. Volleyball is my jam, despite the obvious hiccup that I am not very good at it. That fact is completely in character: I'm not good...
Let's start where the last post left off... That was June, I'd been to the U.S. and back -- twice in two months -- and I needed my zombie time. But we'll skip forward a bit, as zombie time is boring. Messy fun vacations, on the other hand, are NOT boring. And we got...
I keep leaving Tunis – work trips, trips to see family, fun trips... Yesterday I left at noon-ish, arriving eighteen hours later in Atlanta. I’m excited to check out Atlanta, and see the Coca Coca World gift shop, but after a wee side trip to see Dad and Ethelyn, I’ll...
What a lovely ville is Oxford! Impossible not to like the people, particularly this crew who invited me to their team on Pub Quiz night at the The Old Bookbinder's Ale House : (Team, I did the best I could with the red-eye, but sometimes instead of filling in, they...
Scenes around Rome in January. I walked 25,000 steps (says my lyin' iPhone - it was at least twice that). What is it about Rome? I think it's the cobblestones. Or maybe the promise of wine. Probably the animated discussions you hear in the street. Escenas de Roma en...
[Versión en español] Eating well in Amman can cost you a lot, or it can cost you a little. There are falafel shops everywhere, and even in the humblest of them, they take falafel seriously. No day-old oil, no stiff pita, no lily-livered veggies - everything's got...
[Click here for the version in English] Comer bien en Amman, Jordania, te puede costar mucho, o muy, pero que muy poco. Hay puestos de falafel por todos lados, e incluso en los puestos más sencillos, se toman muy en serio la labor de hacer el falafel. Nada de aceite...