It is 1630, Saturday afternoon, and I’m sitting in my 7′X8′ room, NATO Camp KAIA, Kabul, trying to decide whether I have anything worth adding to the site. All I can think of at the moment is that six days from now, I’ll be seeing Danny and his mother in Beijing. I am excited about the [...]
I’m not sure what has spurred me to take this leap. It may have been all of the environmental classes that I’ve taken over the past couple of years, it could have been randomly stumbling upon chooseveg.com and watching their slaughterhouse videos, or it could be an intesified desire to save the world after having [...]
October 19th, 2008 saw me complete the second marathon of my young long-distance running career. In some ways I was nervous about it because of the long summer of what seemed like less training than I had put in for Knoxville. The big city pollution and traffic is a terrible condition for outdoor running, but [...]
Friday Sept 5th: Woke up late with no plans for the day, no objectives or goals of any kind.
I knew for sure, however, that something would happen. I love it about this city, that almost every day you can experience a new place, meet a person from a different part of the world, or be [...]
In my Wikipedia browsing today, I found Ben Stiller’s new comedy, Tropic Thunder, with Tom Cruise in a fat suit and some 80 million dollar budget. I have never heard of this movie before today! This was the first time that I realized how much I will likely miss despite my best efforts to keep [...]
