This week at my job at a Twin Cities charter school, I was asked to review their new discipline policy.[…]
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Ferry Ride to Bukoba, My Low Point on this Trek
I told myself when I left Arusha that this trek around Lake Victoria wasn’t going to be a vacation. It[…]
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Under normal circumstances, a group walking out on the freeway to stop traffic or infiltrating the Mall of America to[…]
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Having by now showed me an abandoned (but not eerie) cemetery, as well as some locals living off the land[…]
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Two books; two smart, well-educated writers; two entirely different opinions on race. Nicholas Wade is a former science writer for[…]
Read moreMwanza: A Huge Lake, Freakishly Large Birds, and a New Friend
I awoke, did one of those looks back and forth where the eyes dart but the head stays put. New[…]
Read moreOn the (deadly) Road to Mwanza, Tanzania
“Here is it,” said the guy standing next to me at the busy Arusha bus station. Finally. It was the[…]
Read more2014: The Stories and Moments of Our Year
2014 Or as it was known to the Armenians: 1463 Or to the Berbers in Northern Africa: 2964 The Korean[…]
Read moreViews of Mt. Kilimanjaro: Goodbye to Arusha and Hello to a New Adventure
Walter Mitty was introduced to the world in 1939 by writer James Thurber. In Thurber’s short story, Mitty is a[…]
Read moreMy Experience with the Black Lives Matter Protest at the Mall of America
I had heard that the Black Lives Matter movement was going to hold a protest at the Mall of the[…]
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