I return to Malawi today. Yesterday, in preparation for the trip, I got a haircut. Barbers in my town are frequently of...

For the last 5 days, I have been staying with a friend in Rio de Janeiro. He lives in Ipanema, one...

I come from a small, geographically dispersed family. When I was young, my parents, sister, and I would pile into our...

In the last two days, my friend Emmanuel has tried phoning me four times. I have been offline and was...

The day after I arrived in Brazil was my mother-in-law’s funeral. She was laid in a casket, her body covered in...

My mother-in-law died three days ago. She had pancreatic cancer, an aggressive condition that took away her vitality and left her...

I am bored with omicron already. Things have moved along nicely with my planning for 2022. On my last trip to...