Wednesday Missives

Superbowl perspective

The Superbowl is over for another year. People are happy or sad about the outcome, based on their life-long affinity for one team or another, or sometimes based more on whim. If someone won last year, that team is sort of automatically served up as the Goliath that...
D.C. vs. anywhere else

D.C. vs. anywhere else

Back in Washington.  Now that I'm a blogger, I'm obviously required and trained to notice the differences between life on the road for work, and life at home.  Here are some contrasts: In DC: I go online, pay some bills, read the newspaper, send some e-mail - usually...

Monrovia, Liberia

Monrovia, Liberia

I've been so bad about keeping in touch that I thought I'd start a blog.  Seven years now I've been running around the world with this very strange job, and I've been so busy I've never really kept track of where, when, how long, why, or - the important one  what's it...