I first visited Israel in 2010, the same summer that a flotilla of Turkish civilians attempted to break Israel’s military blockade of the Gaza Strip, to study at Yad Vashem […]

Calne is the quintessential British hamlet, full of ancient stone buildings, pubs, clock towers, and winding streets. There are churches galore, each one older than the next, some with graveyards […]

Today began well enough, with a proper English breakfast (my favorite) and a short walk to Ten Downing Street, where I had the most interesting meeting I’ve had in a […]

Central London is a curious juxtaposition of nuances and arguments, of history and eccentricity, of old and new. It is a place where the Prets outnumber the Starbucks two-to-one, to […]

I landed at London Heathrow a little before nine last night, and the wifi was working well (small victory number one). I got on my email, deleted the sixty-or-so unimportant […]

The morning began early, with breakfast and beautiful thick coffee followed by a three-hour drive from Sarajevo to Srebrenica, during which the  morning light gradually burnt away the thick layers […]

What a day it has been! I did more today in ten hours than I do in most days during the entire eighteen or so that I’m awake. Among the […]

I had almost forgotten how layovers and flights could accumulate time so rapidly; I left home in Omaha around 3:45PM on Tuesday, Sonja and the kids dropping me off at […]