Category: Culture
Does facing your own death give you a new lease on life?
When I was a one-year-old baby, my mother and my three-year-old brother Freddy and I were traveling to Bunia, a […]
February 13, 2026
Should generosity require reciprocity?
My mother’s family lived between two places in Kenya: the newly emerging city of Nairobi and the rural county of […]
February 12, 2026
Smog threatens sites that survived centuries of onslaught
The city of Delhi, capital of India, promises to be a place that lives simultaneously in the present and past. […]
January 23, 2026
Celebrating Faculty Strengths and Differences: A Positive Strategy for Thriving Academia – Faculty Focus
In today’s complex academic landscape, fostering environments where faculty feel seen, valued, and celebrated is not merely ideal—it is essential. […]
January 19, 2026
Celebrating Faculty Strengths and Differences: A Positive Strategy for Thriving Academia – Faculty Focus
In today’s complex academic landscape, fostering environments where faculty feel seen, valued, and celebrated is not merely ideal—it is essential. […]
January 19, 2026
The good and bad of roaming the world
In six months I will move again. It will be my seventh move in less than two years. I’m not […]
December 30, 2025