It is the eve of the new year and there is less than one week remaining until I leave for Kenya and begin my Mt. Kilimanjaro hiking adventure.  I have been fairly busy as of late preparing for the trip, wrapping up our second semester at school, and navigating my schedule to make time for …

The world is in need of a little magic.  Every day the news brings stories of turmoil and tragedy, not something scripted for dramatic entertainment, but the reality of a world gone slightly crazy.  There may be no good explanation for why people react the way they do.  Why do people fear what they cannot …

예들아!  Guys! (This is how I get my students attention during class).             I’ve got an update that is a little cold off the press (a few weeks late, but that’s ok).  Remember my suffering at the hands of my bicycle earlier in the fall?  If you weren’t able to grasp the gravity of that …