Taking the Long Way

I'm writing today from Juba, South Sudan. I'm not sure what this brings me to in my "countries visited" count, but I'm...

For over a month now, I was beginning to think we'd been completely bamboozled. I mean, I knew the weather in Ireland would suck, but I ...

A few weeks ago, I finally talked Jorge into letting me take Dean to get his hair cut. Jorge has a thing about the boys' hair; he seems ...

In many ways, I'm experiencing far more culture shock moving to Europe than I ever did moving to Africa. I often find myself saying to J...

This may sound strange, but we’re kind of rookies to this whole Christmas thing. I mean, I left home when I was 18, and came home a handful ...

Greetings from Ethiopia. People keep asking me, “What are you doing in Ethiopia? I thought you worked in Ireland now.” Shall I remind you th...

Well, what do you know... there was a presidential election in Ireland yesterday! And I had no clue. I suppose you could say that this fact ...