What a trip this has been to Mali. I brought my wife Sara and niece Aimee with my on this assignment with Winrock. Aimee has been a great traveler, never complaining about anything except the heat, which we’ve all had our fill of. We are here at ...

06152010 Sitting on a roof enjoying the early morning breeze. It’s 80 now at 530 am, on it’s way to 100+. A boy kicks a soccer ball down the red laterite road. Herders pass through with their cattle, on their way to some scattered scrub awa...

Back in Mali. End of dry season and all is hot. Stayed in same hotel with a/c that didn’t work well. Stayed in Bamako 2 nights, then up country for an all day drive after which our butts were very relieved to be over. Country looks more like des...

Hooter hunting ends tomorrow, and king salmon are just starting to show up. I caught one with Kurt last night near the road-side rocks that people fish from last evening. We were off the rocks a ways in the boat. The king hit hard, and then jumped 10 t...

The don’t ask, don’t tell in the military has reared its ugly head again. I call this the last great hate. Used to be whites hated minorities because they looked/talked/ate/acted different from them. Then, guys like Michael Jordan, Willie S...