Aspects of Mom

Aspects of Mom

Some of the different ways I saw my mom during my time with her in Deer Trail: Motherly Mom. Looking at the three of us with pride, beaming, telling us in so many words what she thinks of us. Womanly Mom. A woman, almost unknown to me. Proud and grande-Dame-ish....
Summoned by the General

Summoned by the General

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....
Back from Kaintuck – with the Moron Brothers!

Back from Kaintuck – with the Moron Brothers!

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...
Working, working, working

Working, working, working

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...
Persian cuisine, and a domestic shorthair cat

Persian cuisine, and a domestic shorthair cat

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...

Some better news… the best!

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...