You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. From “Desiderata”, by Max Ehrmann Can you imagine being 3 years old and so excited about a boat trip the next day that you cannot sleep the night before?...
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw For over 30 years as a student, resident, and practicing physician, I analyzed patients and made treatment decisions using the scientific method. A patient’s symptoms led me to formulate a hypothesis...
We have been keeping tabs on the US news from rural Kenya and worrying, not primarily for the safety, health or financial burdens of our friends and family members. No, it is for a purer thing that we fret about our brothers and sisters these days. We fear these...
Blindsided by 2020 20/20 vision represents the standard for normal eyesight as determined by a routine eye exam. However, after being slapped silly by the year 2020, it’s as if we have all woken up in a strange new darkness, groping around without the clarity normally...
Originally posted June 2016 It almost ended there, in a dark cylindrical shaft, not two feet across, and fifteen feet below Earth’s sweeter surface. Floating in raw sewage, the Kenyan baby boy survived because of a simple misunderstanding of buoyancy. By wrapping him...
When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Kenya about 10 weeks ago, we knew that Great Rift Valley families faced a mountain of challenges ahead. Jobs would be scarce and money even tighter than usual for those normally living on less than $2 per day, which described the...
