Fear in a Trumpian World
Fear is the belief that someone or something is dangerous or likely to cause harm, whether or not that someone or something is actually dangerous or ever causes harm. It is…
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Silence can be louder than words and words can be stronger than hate
Because the silence was deafening. Because one third of our students are Muslims. Because we don’t shed our American-ness when we leave the US. Because ignoring it is just as…
A Letter to My Congressman
Dear Congressman Blumenauer, I am despondent by this week’s events. I chose “environment” from the topic choices above because I had to choose something, but from Trump’s Executive Order watering…
I will sit with you awhile
Last week I sat across from one of my students at my desk in the internal medicine office and he told me stories. He told me that he left medical school two…
Posts from Instagram: Work Life
I know many of our blog readers don’t use Instagram, so I’m cross-posting a few entries here. These are stories that all relate to my work life, or my processing…
Summer is Coming
We just started Season 6 of Game of Thrones. Our march through the epic drama somehow marks our time in Tanzania. We started watching in earnest when we moved into…
Work Life in Tanzania
Long story short, we are here to work. Sure we’ll hit up Zanzibar, a safari, and maybe climb a mountain, but we signed up with GHSP to use our medical…
The Delicate Fabric of Civilization: Thoughts on the Arab Conflict
I just finished Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart, the recently published New York Times Magazine behemoth about the Middle East by Scott Anderson. It goes back as far…