Every Stone

My friend Zac took a few really lovely photos at the DMI Summer Institute that I wanted to share. Keep clicking for more photos.

Smattering of photos of time in New York. More photos after the jump. DMI Scholars minus one at the pier, pre-city lights cruise.

My third day without a cell phone. It’s becoming liberating. Breeds independence and self-sufficiency. I’ve been relying on technology for too long. Of course it’s not exactly one of those calm symbiotic relationships like the ramora and the shark — ramora, right? — it’s more like a ball and chain that you have to drag […]

I return to Saturday, to Andolu Kavagi, because I must take a step back to explain the genesis of yesterday’s expedition — it was shaped at the insistence of a Turkish woman I met on Kavagi. I was sitting in a café just shy of the top of the hill, having surveyed the fortress and […]

There can’t be more than five or six flights leaving Kiev at any given time. The airport can’t possibly sustain it.

Okay, this is the final bit from Ukraine before I start sending Istanbul and Athens emails. Forgive the post-dating. I wrote yesterday, but had a complete meltdown with all the goodbyes scheduled into my day that I didn’t send. As I write, I am surrounded by all manner of hostile Ukrainian electric devices. The water-boiler […]

Despite our objective being a debate with Bill O’Reilly, it was a great trip. San Francisco, CA

Lots of photos of my farewell dinner, courtesy of the campaign, after the “jump” as those really sophisticated bloggers say.

Wish I had more opportunities to go to the beautiful places in Nigeria (and to show them in my photos). There are many amazing parts of the country I’m only able to read about, not see or go to. The places I go for work are largely in industrial areas and some of the most […]