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 […]

Yesterday was Independence Day here in the United States, and though I hadn’t expended upon this concept a great deal of premature meditation, I made it a point of saying […]

We got up bright and early yesterday morning; it’s hard to beat the sun up in the summer in Nebraska, but Tylr and I came close, making ourselves a cup […]

Our friends Tylr and Sabrina and their two boys are in town to visit this weekend. We’ve been looking forward to their for about six months now. They arrived late […]

One of the tremendous benefits of teaching is that, if you’re any good at it at all, you’re also doing a lot of learning as you go. I pride myself […]

The World Cup has actually been more interesting to me this year without the United States. I think I’m able to better enjoy the sport when I don’t have a […]

I once had a strong desire to run with the bulls in Pamplona, to climb all 19,000 feet of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and to wrestle and alligator. In fact, I possessed […]