She can’t remember just what it was about Savior, but Comfort fell in love with him quickly after meeting him. She was 20. Five months later, Savior asked her to marry him. She said yes and he gave her parents 200 kwacha for the engagement. The am…
It's damp, breezy and always grey, but Christmas time is still my favorite in Germany. The Christmas Markets are so lovely ... artisans, tasty wurst and potato and steak vendors, toys and stuff to stuff stockings, with ornate wooden stalls and…
Remembering Kenya: "On the job." Taking a selfie with the kiddos at a Maasai village outside the Selenkay Conservancy, Kenya. I was taking videos and we were going nuts looking at images in the back of the Nikon. I look forward to sharin…
There is a pair of black rain boots neatly laid beside the Avon, as the river gently winds through the city, banked on either side by grass and here, yellow flowers. No one is around. The next day, I am back in this same spot, and there is a small…
"I thought about leaving Christchurch but I was born here." Mason Joseph Hurrell is sitting beside me on the "dance floor" — taking a break. He and his friends have come to dance in this vacant lot, where once a building stood…
My final day in the final Kaalamaya speaker's truck, Brian took me to where he grew up. Then he told me he has rapid-onset Alzheimer's and in a few months? All of this will be lost. He is the final speaker, the only one of his Aboriginal mob…
A die cast sculpture of a townsperson of Menzies, western Australia, looks out over Lake Ballard. 150 of these sculptures, of all types of Menzies residents, dot the dried-up lake. To me, in my state of mind, they all seemed to be looking forward,…
Life from the top of the 4-wheel-drive and "swag" tents out in the bush, helping the Ngalia Aboriginal mob document a sacred part of their living history. We are on the road hours east of Leinster, western Australia, in the out out back,…
At 77, Brian Champion has lived in two worlds. Until he was 7 or 8, he lived with his parents — Kaprun people on Kaprun land. Their ancestors lived in their country (land) for ages. Not too long ago, DNA from a single lock of hair confirmed that…
