Jollibee, Durians And Multiple Wives I am on my way to the Philippines to inspect a work in progress CAI…

A Birthday So, it’s my birthday, again. These damned events seem to hit the pedal to the metal, accelerating unrestrained,…

Awjoo – No Blacks Allowed I have been much blessed to have traveled the world filled with adventure and risk,…

A Toilet With Tiles I was recently in remote Lushoto, Tanzania, inspecting a CAI donor-funded school under construction and debating…

Reshma’s Story After trying for three years, the Pakistani government finally decides I am not a threat to their country…

Bollywood In Najaf? It is incredible how the Coronaviruses have upturned all our lives, but especially for frequent travelers. Like…

A slap There is a war of words of larger-than-life proportions next door at the Leela Hotel here in Mumbai,…

My Bloody Gallbladder Stones For uninteresting reasons, I end up in the emergency room of Fatimiyah Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.…

Aal Is Vel It is in an aircraft 28,000 feet in the air that I find out a COVID-19 test…

When the first reports of Afghan families selling or marrying their adolescent daughters for food or debt settlement flashed up…

Who Cares It’s Deepawali, or Diwali, the festival of lights for almost 1.5 billion people of the world population, almost…

Ulfat – Zanzibar I meet Ulfat some three years ago, in her grandmother’s pitiful house somewhere in Zanzibar. It has…