Sunday in Olga’s Shack
At least, it’s what my Sunday looked like, when I visited Olga and her family in Tshepisong, not far from Johannesburg. If you look…
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From the first days back in Rwanda
For you image-lovers, here’s a few photographs from my first few days back in the Great Lakes… One of the reasons I went…
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Boss me around in Africa!
I’ve just landed back in Rwanda, which loyal readers who’ve forgiven years of mostly silence on this blog will recall as my favorite place…
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The Media’s Favorite Disaster Scare Story
Looting. Almost immediately, the word creeps into the conversation. It’s a word we need to be careful with. Less than 24 hours after the…
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No Small Mercy
Together, a survivor and the man who cut off her hand tell the story of Rwanda’s genocide. (2009) Read the PDF (clicking will initiate…
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Translating Public Health For Ordianry People
The Envision conference revealed an ongoing disconnect between policy wonks and storytellers It’s 10am, and we’re talking about death. Deaths from disease and neglect—deaths…
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Remembering the Holocaust One Scrap at a Time
For its 20th birthday this year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum went on “tour” – its word, not mine. In New York, at…
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Orchid lessons
When the seasons change, people in New York are electric. They waltz across basketball courts and gun engines at red lights and dance in…
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Happy International Women’s Day!
I wish I was in Bukavu today, where I’ve met so many strong, amazing women fighting against not only the horrors (rape) we often…
Read MoreWhy do we still get violence against women so wrong?
This week, the American Congress finally resolved its squabbles and brought itself to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. It was a fight, as…
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