Reading Ralph Waldo Emerson to any length is a lot like spending an afternoon...
Some came here looking for it, asking for it, basking in it and bleeding...
Winnie and Cayus Motika live in a four-bedroom home. Their eldest child just graduated...
If this weekend were an animal, it would be an eight legged dragon bear...
Originally published in Range Magazine. Photo Credits: Matt Stabile. Though I grew up in North Dakota, a...
Last night a friend of mine was stabbed several times in the face. He was also stabbed in the bicep while stripped naked. Another friend had his shirt taken from him and people–girls as young as sixteen–stapled his body with a wood stapler. And then there were the fireballs. Raging, manic clouds of flame...
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Fifth graders, I have decided, from a marginal sample size in an unscientific setting, have trouble with understanding cause and effect. Take this conversation: “Did you hit him?” “No.” “I saw you hit him.” “Because he hit me first.” “Why did you hit him first?” “Because it was a redo and he said it wasn’t.”...
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Reading Ralph Waldo Emerson to any length is a lot like spending an afternoon in a pottery museum. Imminent disinterest is moments away in every pottery museum on earth. Half the time they are not even pots, just shards of dirty glass under clean glass. But let’s put away the dirty dishes from the museum, I’m here to give...
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Some came here looking for it, asking for it, basking in it and bleeding it. They packed their bags and hopped a plane or train wearing their I’m-going-to-go-off-the-deep-end trunks. Some came here for other reasons—jobs probably—and heard its whisper rise to a cry and threw their brief cases out the office window and flipped...
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Students in the Bronx after-school program I work with informed me that mother’s day was coming up. I would have had no idea. I’m sure Facebook will tell me the day of, but it should tell me with enough time to hook mi madre up with a box of eccentric awesomeness that seeks and delivers a holy marmot manure! surprised...
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Winnie and Cayus Motika live in a four-bedroom home. Their eldest child just graduated from college and is living at home while she looks for a job. Their middle child attends law school a few hours away and their youngest is still in high school. They live a few miles outside the capital city...
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If this weekend were an animal, it would be an eight legged dragon bear wearing a sombrero, gyrating to the rhythm of a rain dance, imploring the gods to shower the earth with the laughing tears of El Señor Cuervo. If this weekend were a school bus, it would be the Magic School bus...
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The following is a bit of prose I wrote in March on an overnight bus ride from Kenya to Uganda. Sometimes it’s the means of transportation that connects, as my thoughts jumped to three years earlier, when I was on an overnight bus on the other side of the continent, Morocco and them meandered from this...
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CNN’s headline report on the collapsed building in Bangladesh, stated that such incidences are not an “isolated problem.” Shoddy construction standards in the third world claim lives like any natural disaster, unfortunately. I witnessed a situation like this earlier this year when January, 16th a four story building under construction in the Kenya’s third...
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Originally published in Range Magazine. Photo Credits: Matt Stabile. Though I grew up in North Dakota, a place with a Western history or rough riders, it was abroad, galloping on the back of Flaca that I discovered one spirit of the West I’d never found at home. The other horses had a healthy robustness that said, “Bring...
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Photos taken from Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. All the animals signed release form (except for the Hyena who refused and for that reason does not appear in this photo gallery). Previous Page 1 of 4 Next
Yesterday I went with Steven, an American I met on the plane from Cairo to Nairobi, to Kibera, the second largest slum in Africa. At a given time up to 1.5 million people are living in the slum’s 2.5 square kilometers. Rick, a 26 year old man who has lived there for much of...
Students in the Bronx after-school program I work with informed me that mother’s day was coming...
Winnie and Cayus Motika live in a four-bedroom home. Their eldest child just graduated...
CNN’s headline report on the collapsed building in Bangladesh, stated that such incidences are...
Originally published in Range Magazine. Photo Credits: Matt Stabile. Though I grew up in North Dakota, a...
This lion just abused her cub. In public. And no one did anything about...
