Schipol Airport, Netherlands Out of the blue more than a year ago or so, we got an email talking about some NPR associated show called “This I Believe” modeled on something Edward R. Murrow had done back in the day. We start suspicious on all manner of such things, since too often we have found …
Category: Personal Writings
This I Believe – Monday NPR!
Lagos We have been informed that an essay I wrote and read for the NPR series, “This I Believe,” will be aired on Monday morning, January 29th, on the “Morning Edition” show. That’s really all we know, so good luck hearing it, and hope you enjoy and let me know what you think of it …
Settlements of Nairobi
Nairobi I went with six other members of Habitat International–Coalition to see three settlements in Nairobi in the late afternoon of the 3rd day of the World Social Forum. What we saw was disturbing to many of our delegation, yet we were witnessing what were obviously squatting success stories. The first area was on a hillside. The …