March 2011
2 posts
passion is somewhere between fear and sex and...
I am in Africa. I am alone. I am alone in Africa. Today I went for a hike with a friend and left him on Mt Kenya to keep climbing so that I could come down to meet someone who would not arrive. I am reading books and drinking chai because somewhere India got mixed up with Kenya. My guide down the mountain was Samson, a 25 year-old Kenyan, shorter than me with skinnier legs than mine. I had...
good medicine in the far far away
i’m working from senegal this month. my friend joe and i are doing a one-month rotation for med school at the clinique borom darra-J in tivaouane, a small town about 95 kilometers north of dakar. the town is a road lined with corrugated tin shacks and stacks of tires and sonatel mobile credit vendors and women in bright red/orange/black wild print dresses with matching headscarves that leap...
