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Monday, April 16, 2007

On international travel

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My upcoming trip to London and to Malawi will be second international trip, not counting my forays into Canada. Speaking of Canada, I should...

Purpose of Malawi Trip

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Because I have written about issues related to providing a clean and safe water supply to one remote village in southern Malawi, some of my ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Origins of my trip to Malawi

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Last year I found that my writing took me in a new and very unexpected direction. I answered a call for articles in one of my planning magaz...
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Travel to Malawi in early summer

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It is official, late last week, I booked plane tickets to Malawi in the later half of June. I am very excited about this opportunity. I will...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Reflections on light bulbs

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Funny thing. I never used to spend much time thinking about light bulbs. Every so often, I’d pick some up of various sizes when I was at the...
Friday, January 19, 2007

light bulbs

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A couple of weeks ago as we were experiencing warmer than normal weather here in the northeastern U.S., I finally went out and did something...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

My Christmas Vacation

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I was going to write about AIDs in Uganda last week, but decided that I had to spend some more time checking things out on the net before I ...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Orange Bowl at half-time

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This second day of January finds me watching the Orange Bowl. [Wake Forest almost blocked a punt] I have been a pretty serious NFL football ...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

My Dad and HIV/AIDs research

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I’m not quite sure what transpired that lead my Dad to focus on immunology. By the early 1970s he was running a clinical immunology laborato...
Friday, December 08, 2006

My Dad and Africa

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I want to pause for a moment and tell you about my Dad, John. You see, in many ways, my Dad is an inspiration for my interest in Malawi. You...
Friday, December 01, 2006

Reflections on water

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It may be ironic that as I write this it is raining. Rain, what some of the arid or semi–arid regions in the world wouldn’t give for the amo...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance

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In the course of my writing about Malawi and her people, I happened upon a wonderful organization called the Global AIDS Interfaith Allianc...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

More Facts on Malawi

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Electricity (lack of), Sanitation, and Source of Drinking Water in Malawi Source: 2004 Malawi Demographic and Health Survey (Chapter 2 of th...

Facts on Malawi

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These facts on Malawi were forwarded to me by someone that I have cooresponded with about Malawi. I will let these facts speak for themselve...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

Malawi geography

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Malawi is a landlocked country in what is often referred to as the sub-saharan region of Africa. That is, the region below the Saharan deser...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Platelet donor

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I am starting to work on my next entry about Malawi, about geography including a map. I hope to post this tomorrow or the next day. In the m...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Why am I writing about Malawi?

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Well, I'll tell you. Over the last couple of years, I have been doing more reading about issues affecting the global water supply, with ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Grateful for sitting in the dark with no water

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Last Friday afternoon, a line of squalls with high winds went through here in the middle of the afternoon. I didn't think much of it unt...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Confessions

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Ok, I have talked the talk about my intention to make an entry to this blog every day or so. And as you can see by the length of time since ...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

R.I.P. Cory Lidle and Tyler Stanger

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Cory Lidle, a pitcher for the New York Yankees, died yesterday when his plane crashed into a high rise on the east side of Manhattan. His fl...