Category Archives: Africa

A Walk At Night – Nairobi / Kili Initiative 2019 # 3

August 6, 2019 – 4:09 pm

Nairobi’s reputation for violent crime had earned the Kenyan capitol the nickname ‘Nai-rob-ee. Commander Tim and his Kili Initiative team had warned that I shouldn’t leave the grounds of the YMCA. “We can not promise your safety,” shrugged Fast Steve. “A white man is a target always after dark.” I had walked thought a slum […]

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2019 KILI INITIATIVE # 6 – Kibo Lodge Reveille

August 6, 2019 – 10:39 am

5:55am came early the next morning. Young voices issued from the Kibo Lodge gardens and I rose from bed. The entire entourage was gathered in a clearing. Loitokitok glowed on a near hilltop. The sun was rising in the East. I thought about going back to sleep, then reproached myself, “I didn’t come all this […]

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What Snow?

March 24, 2019 – 4:56 pm

The US Meteorological Survey has reported that New York City received a little over twenty inches of snow this winter. All I saw were a few dustings, then again throughout February I was in Kenya and Tanzania. Snow topped Mount Kilimanjaro and some days ran down the slopes, however the equatorial sun melted the snow […]

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Kili Initiative 2019 # 1 – JFK to NAIROBI

March 20, 2019 – 9:17 pm

In early February I met Natalia Rios, Larry Fishbourne, and Laikyn Graham at JFK Airport for a flight to Nairobi, Kenya. The young New Yorkers were the members of the Kili Initiative’s 2019 team and I was their ‘chaperone’. The Initiative’s goal was to broaden their horizons by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in […]

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GOING SOUTH

December 11, 2016 – 7:34 am

Several years ago I watched Charlotte Rampling on the BBC. The actress had been a fantasy of mine after seeing THE NIGHT PORTER and the 60-year-old was promoting her new film by Laurent Cantent’s HEADING SOUTH. This movie featured a rare examination of sex, lust, and lust set in Haiti of the 1970s and Charlotte […]

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