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Training Camp

This is something I wrote after the second day of World Race training camp in July. I wanted to share because I am heading back out onto the field in 10 days with Real Life to Kenya. I wrote this…

A bit of the past…

I decided to repost something from my older blog in order to possibly spark some form of creativity in my writing. This is a blog I wrote seven weeks ago. Enjoy. ———————————————————————————————————— Writer’s Block …such a frustrating non-sequitur. Truly vast…

a ray of hope…

Not sure if anyone has read this, but BBC recently did an article on Kenya’s new constitution. This could be the first ray of hope Kenya has seen in about 20 years. This constitution is the product of two decades…

Eye for an Eye

This article showed up in the news last weekend in the BBC. A Saudi man stabbed and paralyzed another person. The victim’s wishes are that the attacker receive the same punishment under Islamic law. So Saudi courts are trying to…

Pay It Forward

You may have seen the 2000 movie, starring Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, and Kevin Spacey. If you have not, its a moving drama about a young boy (Osment) who is challenged at the beginning of the school year by…

Pakistan Update

It has now been three weeks since the flooding has taken its toll on Pakistan. So far, here are the statistics:  -6 million people in need of food -3 million children at risk from deadly water born diseases -over 722,000…

Independence Day

It has been almost 4 months since I left Andhra Pradesh, India. Not a day goes by where I do not miss the time spent playing with children in orphanages, picking groundnuts in the fields, visiting the lepers in the…

Starvation in Niger

Here is another issue that has crossed my path and deserves attention. Niger, a country in the Northwest corner of Africa, has experienced the worst hunger crisis in their history. At least half the population, around 7.3 million people are…