I didn’t go looking for Respres.com. It found me. A random link to the “about” page of Respres.com showed up in my Feedly stream as part of a search result designed to find instances when photos from my Flickr account are used outside of Flickr. I navigated to the page and found that Respres.com was, […]
Kenya – Recalibrating My Worldview
As he drove us to our appointment in what is known as the “Quarry Slums” Andrew Mnjama spoke passionately about his background in finance, his experience with micro-finance, and his desire to make a difference in the lives of the poorest of the poor in Nairobi’s slums, all the while, effortlessly dodging cars and people […]
Kenya Exposed More Than Just My Emotions
I didn’t write a single word while I was in Kenya. I snapped over 3000 photos and videos. I updated Twitter and Facebook and Path in the morning or the evening when I had access. But I did not sit down to write like this at all during my 21 days outside of the United […]
Of Netbooks, Kenya And Perspective
“Can I help you?” “Yes,” I said. “I’d like to buy this Gateway netbook” If you know me, that’s not a sentence I thought would ever come out of my mouth. But that’s the whole point of this story. I wasn’t buying it for me, I was buying it for Mary, the first of the […]
I’m Going To Kenya To Meet My Daughters
“I’ve found two more daughters.” Those are the words I was greeted with when my wife, Rocky, returned from what we thought was going to be her “once in a lifetime” volunteer trip to Kenya with Global Volunteer Network in October of 2007. She had fallen in love with the girls at St. Monica’s Children’s […]
I Have A Brand New Son
There is a new child living in our house. He looks exactly like the 7-year old who was living here before. He wears the same clothes and he sleeps in the same bed. But he’s not the same child. Not even close. He’s happier, funnier, more loving and more in contol. My wife wrote about […]