Monthly Archives: December 2019

Maasai Rocks – 2019 Kili Initiative # 14

December 3, 2019 – 3:06 pm

After a quick lunch of sandwiches the Kili Initiative squad headed to the Maasai Rocks to learn climbing techniques. The footpath was typically dusty and the sun was high in the sky, however the temperature was pleasant on the high equatorial plain. I lagged behind the group as a rearguard against a lion attack. While […]

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Tree Planting # 13 – Kili Initiative 2019

December 3, 2019 – 12:12 pm

Trees have dramatically disappeared from the Maasai Marra with the change in climate and the increase of goat herds. The Kili Initiative has been dedicated to fighting this deterioration of the by promoting the planting of trees around schools by the students and Kili Initiative team members. We rose early and washed with the small […]

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The Middle Of Nowhere # 12- 2019 Kili Initiative.

December 1, 2019 – 9:59 pm

The younger members of the 2019 Kili Initiative team were exhausted from the slog up Lolopange and were happy to depart from the thorny slopes of the arid hill. I asked the group, “What would rather do? Climb Lolopange or spend a night in jail?” “Jail,” they answered as one and we all laughed at […]

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World AIDS Awareness Day

December 1, 2019 – 1:21 pm

In the Fall of 1978 I was hired as security at an uptown punk disco uptown. The job paid $100 a night and free drinks from the gay bartenders. I came home from Hurrah smelling of cigarettes, beer, and perfume. Alice slept on the bed. I crashed on the couch. Late one night a doctor […]

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To Forgive and Forget by Peter Nolan Smith

December 1, 2019 – 6:25 am

After my youngest brother died of AIDS in 1995, I traveled to the holiest shrines in Asia. The ancient temples salved little of my grief and I switched to worshipping the high heels of the go-go girls. Vee danced at the Baby A Go-Go in Pattaya. She had one eye. We had an affair. The […]

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