El Sauce, Nicaragua. A friend recently asked if it pays to be a good person. Yes. I think so. Yes. I do my best to do so and feel like I get paid back for it in the amazing experiences i have and the people I meet. If you really feel like you don&…
I'm in Australia, helping to preserve three Aboriginal languages and tell the story of three mobs (tribes). Am I REALLY learning life, culture and other stories from the last fluent Ngalia speaker on earth? The last fluent Kaalamaya speaker O…
The day's copy of The West Australian lay on her back seat. I stared at it a bit then picked it up. The first page I turned had this image of U.S. journalist James Foley on it. I can't tell you how long I stared at this image, at his eyes…
I turned on Facebook and found this — a poem by the talented Brad Werner in Arizona, who was somehow inspired to write a poem [https://bwer432.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/dont-muss-with-cuss/] about me and my projects. I'm honored!!! .. and so I&…
Dear Mom: Remember when you had to have open-heart surgery and while we hoped, there was a fear in the back of our minds, and surely in yours, that you would not make it out the other side? They remove your heart, put it on a table, and then set…
Just two chromosomes separate primates from man. I look at this, and feel it could be less. Amboseli National Park. Golden baboon.…
Sunde is a Masai warrior. He was also a lion hunter for his tribe before he became a Lion Guardian, tracking lions and helping to prevent loss of livestock from kills in the community. This guy, at 23, clearly has some guts. Hunters go to kill lio…
As part of this amazing journey, I was invited by a Bukusu family to document — and thereby be a part of — their son Humphrey's journey into manhood. Circumcision rituals are sacred rites of passage for many tribal groups in Kenya. The Bukusu…
I wrote this "About me" section when I joined Facebook, I don't know, maybe 8 years ago? Life is short. Life is sweet. Life is a bag of rocks smashing you in the head. Life is the 2 a.m. conversations about your insane adventures, wi…
