2005

The spirit of the age is ambivalence, not skepticism, and into this comes a special time to worship.

In the mysterious game of African poker politics, you have to wonder if even a seasoned fox like Yoweri Museveni is not overplaying his hand.

Getting a hair cut in Africa for a man comes without the comfy chair, the warm lather or the sense of style.

Burglary and theft are rampant across Uganda. Police are underfunded, disrespected and overburdened.

Rise in suicide reflects chronic lack of mental health services, especially in Third World.

Two weeks into my new life in Uganda, I'm quickly learning how precarious life can be when living with the threat of infectious diseases.

Maybe Labour Day should be replaced with Bum Day says our resident traveller.

Women and children, in New Orleans or the Third World, often suffer the most in disasters.

Good friends, a hospital tragedy, and a lack of toilet paper in public washrooms.

The western and Islamic worlds clearly don’t understand one another, as the botched Newsweek report on the Koran clearly shows.

Clearly the marriage gods were telling me something. Your marriage is something very noble. Don’t blow it. Because, yes, it also has the potential to burst into flames.

It not only returns life to its natural pace, but the bicycle is the great leveller.

In Uganda, the land has uncommon beauty, and life has its own strange mix of dark memories of killings, talk of restorative justice, and forgiveness.

Booming, oil-rich city is luring outsiders. That s likely why it feels so hollow.

The feet of ‘ragged men’, Vincent Van Gogh and the story of the prodigal son all come to mind as Easter dawns in Yemen.