Be aware international travelers, it is now demanded that we arrive at the airport 3 hours before departure. It’s possible to arrive at the boarding gate less than one hour before takeoff and be denied entry. Our airports in the U.S. have become military zones. Step out of line, ask to move ahead if you are […]
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Malawi in 2 weeks
Sitting on the plane from Johannesburg to Malawi, my seatmate was a wine connoisseur, an entertaining conversationalist and a regular visitor to this tiny country which is probably poorer now than it was the years after independence. After consuming almost an entire bottle of a delicious pinot from the area near Stellenbosch in South Africa, he was […]
Nobody knows
Story #1 There is a public school here which is barely inhabitable with dust coming up from the dirt floors and mud brick walls, Two garbage cans serve over 300 students and the only access to electric is a generator powered by gasoline which is too expensive to turn on. There are computer classes but no […]
Playing the Godmother
There was a knock at my door early this evening as my young friend Rahina and I were sitting down to devour a plate of spaghetti covered in fresh tomato sauce. My pregnant 19 year old neighbor Clarice had come to fill empty plastic bottles with cleaner water from my tap. Already seven months pregnant, […]