the cautious pessimist

Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia, died on August 19.   I have yet to see a single mention of this in North American or European news.  An...

Judith Timson wrote an article in the Globe and Mail on-line on July 29 about what she calls "voluntouring." (I'm not providin...

As I've mentioned, I'm not so sure that I like blogging about my life.  I know I'm far away from home and it's nice to updat...

So maybe this blogging thing isn't going so well at all. I thought it would be a better alternative to mass emails, but now I'm not ...

I'm going to start a new reading list for the next year. In all I read 27 books over the last year, which averages out to about one eve...

Wow! I've now been in Tanzania for a whole year. It doesn't really seem like it - it's hard to believe. In some ways I feel li...

So, I promised beach pictures, and here they are. For Christmas we went to Bagamoyo, the former capital of Tanzania (then Tanganyika) duri...

I got in a wreck on New Year's Eve. I got to say "Happy New Year" to everyone in the Aga Khan Hospital emergency room in Dar ...

I hope that everyone has a nice Christmas and a good New Year. As a fan of "How I Met Your Mother" (thanks Allison!), I agree tha...