Better late than never, I suppose. The editorial board of the New York Times used some of their space on Sunday to condemn Meles Zenawi’s… Read More »Ethiopia deserves better than “better than Mengistu”
My good friend Tomas Krag just posted a thought-provoking observation about travel. Like me, Tomas has spent a good piece of the last five years… Read More »Sitting still and meditating on travel addiction
It’s the end of autumn and the beginning of winter here in the Berkshires. Usually, this is the time of year I’m arranging my schedule… Read More »A Mongolian and a Bulgarian walk into a basho…
Thanksgiving is both the simultaneously the simplest and most fraught of major American holidays. On the one hand, it’s a very straightforward holiday. You get… Read More »Thanksgiving… and my recipe for Turkey a la Pompeii
My colleague Jerzy Celichowski just brightened my day by pointing me to his bridge blog. Inspired by last year’s Global Voices meeting at Harvard, he… Read More »Bridging across Central Europe
Someone needs to teach the Germans to write headlines. The lead for their story today on the 2005 weblog awards: “Best Weblog of 2005 Goes… Read More »GV wins a BOB!