April 06, 2010

no excuse not to pay your nanny tax!

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There's an entire company devoted to helping people pay their nanny taxes .
April 03, 2010

Direct to you from the men's room wall in the Thunderbird Cafe, Austin TX:

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Infant tweet: OMG, I just got born!! 30 minutes later: I miss my umbilical cord!:(((((
November 29, 2009

My Kinyarwanda Glossary (with some Swahili)

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* = ones I actually know beete = hi* nibgeza = response to "beete" amakuru? = how are you?* meza = I'm good* sawa = I'm go...
November 27, 2009

Semi-Hiatusing

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Dateline: Flipnotics Well, back at my desk I find I have relatively little new to say, old chums, except that I'd like to get out of her...
November 18, 2009

Photos You Can Hear

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Mt. Horeb Holy Church Choir, Kigali, Rwanda. These should cheer you up a bit after the previous post. Photos by the gifted and adventurous C...
November 15, 2009

Murambi Genocide Memorial Center; Church of Ste. Famille

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At Murambi, about 40 km from the Congo border, there was a vocational school with many small classroom buildings. In 1994, Hutu militia herd...
November 14, 2009

The Masked Neocolonialist

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The mask is a public-health measure designed to protect the population, and ourselves, from flu. When we arrived, there had been one confirm...
November 13, 2009

Rwanda photo 1

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Hi folks, here's the first photo I'm putting up from the Rwanda trip. There are many more, and I'll try to get some of them sort...
November 07, 2009

Gorillas in the Mist, H1N1 in the Guest House, Heaven in the Church, Mud Against the Wall

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Help, I have a lot more to say! Here's a very quick recap: 1. I previously opined that the church service was disappointing, but the fol...
November 03, 2009

Muhanga Days

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We're in the very nice small town of Muhanga -- "we" meaning our little group of seven muzungus and muzungettes -- treated wit...
October 31, 2009

National Work Day

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Today's a national work day in Rwanda. They have it on the last day of every month. For a couple of hours in the morning, everyone does ...
October 28, 2009

Fourth Morning in Rwanda

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I'm getting used to a pleasant routine. Five-year-old Gentil is counting teabags in English before he gets ready for school; Costa is bo...
October 25, 2009

Where Am I?

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Using a German keyboard in an unpaved neighborhood outside the center of Kigali. Just gettting the machine ready with a Sim card transferred...
October 22, 2009

Ready to Go

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I'm starting off toward Africa today and I'll return on Nov. 12. Today it's the Minneapolis airport for five hours, which may be...
October 20, 2009

Bumper Sticker Patrol, Installment 7

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Left rear bumper: "Consumption Will Not Fill the Void." Right rear bumper: "Black Star Pub Brewery"

Attack from the Distaff Side

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Returning for a moment to the milieu of the previous post , when we look back at the dawn of time we find book and movie titles such as The ...
October 17, 2009

What Are They Reading in 1960?

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The contents of Reader’s Digest Condensed Books for Winter 1961, when Eisenhower gave way to Kennedy: A. The Light in the Piazza , by Eliza...
October 16, 2009

It feels utterly cool...

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...to go into Radio Shack and ask for a foreign travel electrical adapter, and when he asks what country I'm going to, say, "Rwanda...
October 15, 2009

By the way, this is why human beings sing.

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( Richard Thompson on guitar )
October 12, 2009

A Lifetime's Reading

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I'm entering the time of life when you want to spend more time with your loved ones. And so I want to reread Resurrection, Crime and Pun...