I’ve resolved to spend more time behind bars
So it’s that time of year when all of our New Year resolutions aren’t yet broken. Among mine is to get into jail more often.
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suffering
In Uganda the “war of childbirth” continues
Her name is Fatmata. She is an African mother. And this is her story.
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Finding true meaning of living
A visitor in Uganda sees the light, through the tattered lives of those around him.
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Childhood as it was never meant to be
One of the unexpected things I’ve caught since coming to Africa for the long haul is a certain disturbing feeling in the pit of my stomach. It’s grown there quietly, feeding, I suspect, on the various foreign sights and sounds around here, especially those of the children.
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Christmas: the luxury to pick and choose
I received an email the other day from a Christian in Ontario upset over, in his words, “the pantywaist liberalism” of his employer.
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Loneliness is acute among poor
Rise in suicide reflects chronic lack of mental health services, especially in Third World.
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The everyday feel of death
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.
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To Santa from a despairing Yahoo
Thanks for that gift from last year, the Gulliver’s Travels book. Very nice choice. The Houyhnhnms, those horse-like characters, were so bright, so noble. And those savage Yahoos: so dim, so lost. Poor Gulliver couldn’t see himself in them.
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