this ain't no safari.

I'd love to write a blog post about each of these articles, but given the abundance this week of great stuff that's come across my i...

"I can't believe a year went by so fast." - Mark, from the musical Rent Ok, so it didn't always feel fast.  But regardless...

Rwanda and its neighbor to the south are frequently described as mirror countries.  Ruled jointly by Belgium during colonialism, the countri...

If you've followed this here blog of mine or have spoken me with me since I left the States almost a year ago, you know that I trained f...

Our office has a great culture of forwarding news articles, studies, and photographs that run the full gamut offbeat, thought-provoking, tas...

I'm here because of Alex.  In March of 2010, I was just starting to think about what I would do after my two-year Teach For America comm...

...is not actually Paul Kagame,  Ok, PK might win in terms of total numbers of people who adore him.  But the honor of greatest volume of ...

I have a dirty vegetarian secret.  It's different from my mother's dirty vegetarian secret which is that one time she ate a chicken ...

There's a folder of music on my computer labeled "KigaliLife".  It's a reference to the Yahoo group of the same which esse...

When 20% of your country's total population is brutally murdered in the span of a hundred days, many of them in the prime of their best ...